UTICA, N.Y. -- After a more than yearlong investigation, Utica police arrested a man for graffiti.

Police say over a year and a half period, multiple locations in west Utica had been vandalized by graffiti. As a result of the investigation, Jonathon Greico-Wolak, 21, has been charged for the crimes.

Greico-Wolak is facing five counts of trespass, five counts of making graffiti and five counts of possession of graffiti instruments.