LAPD Police Horse Tagged at Venice Beach

Police today sought the public’s help in identifying a suspect who scrawled graffiti on a Los Angeles Police Department horse at Venice Beach.

The horse, named Charlie, was marked on Tuesday while working a crime suppression detail, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.

The silver-colored graffiti was removed from the hind quarters of the horse, which was from the Mounted Division of the LAPD’s Metropolitan Division.

Anyone with information about the suspect was urged to contact detectives at the LAPD’s Pacific Division at (310) 482-6313. After-hours calls can be made to (877) LAPD-24-7 and anonymous tips can be provided by calling Crime Stoppers at (800) 222-TIPS.

--City News Service; Image of Charlie via LAPD

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