Can’t Stop Won’t Stop

The attorney had to rewrite his client’s sentencing statement upon hearing news of the gentleman’s untimely arrest:

Apparently, Russell Farriola still hasn’t learned write from wrong.

Police say the 20-year-old West Brighton man was up to his old tricks again yesterday evening, defacing a Sunnyside corner with the borough’s most notorious graffiti tag — “Aloe.”

Remarkably, Farriola — who law enforcement officials dubbed Public Enemy No. 1 for his previous quality-of-life crimes against the North Shore — is expected to be sentenced today to 60 days in jail and three years’ probation in exchange for pleading guilty on June 18 to one misdemeanor charge of making graffiti. He was originally charged with 48 graffiti incidents.

“I guess they’re going to have to renegotiate that deal,” quipped a cop source.

According to the source, a little after 6 p.m. yesterday, a patrolling Anti-Crime Unit from the North Shore’s 120th Precinct spied Farriola scrawling his moniker with a pink marker on a bus stop sign on Victory Boulevard, not far from the Clove Lake Book Store.

Police Officers Joel Six and Jeff Desio, as well as Lt. Kevin Meurer, made a U-turn to grab Farriola when he bolted onto a St. George-bound city bus.