Police served a search warrant at Bean Complex Tuesday afternoon and found evidence connected to graffiti crimes allegedly committed by two University students, Eugene Police Department spokeswoman Kerry Delf said.
University freshmen Sam Vinstein, 18, and Ryan Hammond, 19, had their Ganoe Hall rooms searched around 2:15 p.m., and police seized numerous items from both, including stereo equipment, computers, a cell phone, spray cans, a pencil sharpener, T-shirts, baseball caps and iPods, the men said.
The students weren’t in their residence hall rooms when the police arrived, Delf said in an interview around 5:30 p.m.
Police were still looking for the students to either arrest or cite them on possible charges of criminal mischief, unlawful application of graffiti, unlawful possession of a graffiti implement and criminal trespass, Delf said.
Vinstein and Hammond were contacted by an EPD officer shortly before 7 p.m., and they set up an appointment to meet with police today to discuss the search warrant and possible charges, they said.
“Anything I do as art they automatically say is graffiti,” Vinstein said.
Police couldn’t be reached for comment after the Emerald spoke with Vinstein and Hammond.