ASHEVILLE — What police described in arrest warrants as a months-long graffiti tour of downtown and the South Slope ended for a local man late last month.

Leonardo Nunes Borgneth, 39, was arrested March 28 and charged with several counts of misdemeanor larceny and breaking into coin machine charges. On April 12, police added 15 counts of graffiti vandalism to the charges against Borgneth.

Between November and March, police say that Borgneth tagged 14 Asheville businesses grouped along Lexington and Biltmore avenues and in the South Slope.

Along the brick wall that forms one side of Lexington's Chevron Trading Post and Bead Co. Borgneth used black spray paint to write "relax, space and Egypt," according to arrest warrants, which date the graffiti to early March. That wall, a seafoam color before, now bears a slightly darker patch of paint used to cover the graffiti.

According to Borgneth's warrants, space and Egypt were a common theme in his tags across town. On the doors to Twin Leaf Brewery in the South Slope, police say, Borgneth used a white paint pen to write "Egypt and space." That happened in late February, warrants state.

About a month earlier, a van belonging to Swannanoa Cleaners, a staple of Coxe Avenue located just down the road from Twin Leaf, got a fresh coat of unwanted paint. "Relax, space and your mother's idol" had been sprayed in black across the side of the white vehicle, according to warrants.

Police allege that Borgneth also tagged TakoSushi, Food Lion Skate Park, Manicomio Pizza, Bender Gallery, and Patton Avenue Pet Company among other businesses.

Each graffiti count came with a $500 secured bond, totaling $7,500. That's in addition to the $17,000 secured bond Borgneth was already being held in lieu of at the Buncombe County jail.

He is next expected in court on May 9.