MTA captured!

Lawrence K. Ho / Los Angeles Times
L.A.'s largest tag: the giant, half-mile-long "MTA" scrawl that appeared last year along the concrete banks of the Los Angeles River near downtown.

In the macho, braggart, narcissistic world of Los Angeles tagging, no one can match the Metro Transit Assassins crew.

Authorities said the group is responsible for some of the city's most notorious acts of vandalism, most notably L.A.'s largest tag: the giant, half-mile-long "MTA" scrawl that appeared last year along the concrete banks of the Los Angeles River near downtown.

But on Wednesday, authorities said they finally had arrested the MTA crew, including "Smear," a well-known "graffiti artist" whose work has been sold in some downtown L.A. art galleries.

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