Following Poster Boy's arrest over the weekend, The NY Post sheds some more light on how things went down. First off, they identified the street artist as 27-year-old Henry Matyjewicz, and go on to report that he "was busted after an undercover officer overheard him bragging to a girl about his exploits at a party." That's so 21 Jump Street! Allegedly he was held on $750 bail and "charged with counts of criminal mischief, graffiti and possessing a tool to make graffiti. He was also held on a warrant for shoplifting in Manhattan last August, court records show." When we talked to him a week before this incident, we asked if he'd ever been arrested—he told us, "Yeah. Never for art related crimes though. What have I gotten away with? That's the real question." What happens now? Our sources tell us that things should settle down "in a couple of weeks."
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