The Moustache Man is anonymous no more. The marker-wielding subway poster defacer has been arrested. Just days after giving an interview in which he made it sound like he took his silly doodles very seriously, Joseph Waldo, 26, of Manhattan, was taken into custody by the NYPD last night.

You probably recognize Waldo's work, as it seems to appear on a poster in nearly every subway stop in the city. Basically he writes the word "Moustache" where a person's moustache would be, complete with curlicues at the end of the M and E.

Police say that Waldo's recent online bragging helped them catch him after "a two-month long investigation." He has been charged with felony criminal mischief and other counts.

And when we say Waldo seems to take his work quite seriously, we weren't joking. For the record, this is how the Moustache bandit explains his oeuvre: