Two mischievous teens were caught red-handed—literally—after they vandalized two civil war landmarks on the Upper West Side, police said.
Cops were on patrol Thursday night when they got a call for a couple of graffiti vandals tagging the cenotaph on Riverside Drive and West 89th Street at 3:20 a.m. at the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ memorial monument, according to the NYPD.
Sgt. Nathaniel Herman and Police Officer Carmen Ledesma saw the 17-year-old Mike Kushnir and 15-year-old girl using red spray paint, according to the NYPD’s Facebook account.
“When responding to a graffiti call, the suspects are usually long gone when you get there,” Herman said. “But this time we got them, literally, red-handed,” he explained, according to a Facebook post on the NYPD’s webpage.