A 23-year-old St. Catharines man has been charged in connection with more than a dozen graffiti tags found on buildings and other properties.

It's the third graffiti-related arrest Niagara Regional Police detectives have made in St. Catharines since January in response to a proliferation of tagging found across the city.

On Friday, police said they made an arrest after investigating incidents in which the graffiti tag "Slub" was painted on properties. They said they found the tag at 15 locations.

Jermaine Khalil Griffith, 23, was arrested and charged Thursday with a global count of mischief over $5,000 and two counts of mischief under $5,000.

He was released from custody with a future court date in June.

The three separate arrests since January of St. Catharines men in their 20s allegedly account for nearly 200 tags across the city.

In January, 22-year-old Travis James Couto was charged with a global count of mischief over $5,000 and seven counts of mischief under $5,000 after police identified 107 incidents of the tag "HUER" painted on public and private property.

Last month, NRP charged 20-year-old John Wyatt Jarrett with a global count of mischief over $5,000 and seven counts of mischief under $5,000 after investigating how the tag GAFI was sprayed in 73 locations.

All three men are accused of tagging between October 2018 and January 2020.

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