Marcus Santos for New York Daily News
Street artist Essam Attia planted dozens of these phony NYPD drones posters around the city.
A street artist whose mock public service ads around the city claimed
the NYPD used spy drones to monitor citizens was busted after outing
himself in a website interview, authorities and sources said.
Essam Attia, 29, was hit with 56 counts of criminal possession of a
forged instrument, grand larceny possession of stolen property and
weapons possession after allegedly having an unloaded .22-caliber
revolver under his bed at his Manhattan apartment when he was arrested
early Wednesday.Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/street-artist-mock-ads-claimed-nypd-spy-drones-busted-article-1.1210708#ixzz2F8JBgrP4
I’m thinking NICE WORK by NYPD, doing the hard detective work after he signed his posters “Essam”. It took 2 months to find him? Bad move by the artist, using the NYPD logo on the posters, though.
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