UPDATE
LOS ANGELES -- "Buket," the daredevil tagger who gained notoriety for his brazen daylight "bomb" of a sign over the Hollywood Freeway, could be headed to state prison.
Authorities said today they found fresh evidence of his tags in downtown and South Los Angeles.
Los Angeles County sheriff's transit investigators did a probation compliance search at graffiti artist Cyrus Yazdani's residence this morning after they found new "Buket" tags on a South Los Angeles business, a mural on the Hollywood Freeway and the concrete lining of the Los Angeles River, which authorities said had been one of his favorite targets.
Sheriff's officials said that when they interviewed Yazdani, he was in possession of scribers, which are used in tagging. He also had paint splatter on his clothing. He was later detained and brought to the Century Regional Detention Center, where he is being held without bail on a parole violation.
In December, a judge sentenced "Buket," whose real name is Cyrus Yazdani, to 10 months in county jail, 256 hours of graffiti removal and five years' formal probation after he pleaded guilty to nearly three dozen counts of felony vandalism. He was released from jail for credit for time served but faced the prospect of three years in state prison if he violated the terms of sentence.
The case stemmed from a tagging spree between 2005 and 2007, during which, authorities said, the 26-year-old San Jose State University graduate slapped his tags on buses, freeway walls and overpasses as well as the concrete lining of the Los Angeles River.
Yazdani became something of an Internet sensation when he plastered his "Buket" bomb 20 feet above the busy Hollywood Freeway -- vandalism that was captured on videotape and posted with a rap soundtrack on YouTube and numerous tagger-related blogs.
Another daylight attack, which was also videotaped, appeared to show "Buket" applying his moniker to a Metropolitan Transportation Authority bus as passersby and passengers watched in surprise.
A YouTube video that captured both tagging exploits has more than 450,000 views. But the notoriety also got the attention of sheriff's transit investigators, who last May arrested Yazdani.
Sheriff's officials said they had evidence that Yazdani had marked hundreds of freeway overpasses, concrete walls and transit buses across the state and southern Nevada.
Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies and officials with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers identified at least 20 "Buket" scrawlings along a stretch of the river spanning a couple of miles, causing an estimated $60,000 in damage.