Irony alert: “KIDD” is anything but.Shoreline police have arrested a 35-year-old graffiti

Irony alert: “KIDD” is anything but.Shoreline police have arrested a 35-year-old graffiti artist who they claim is the city’s most prolific tagger.Tony Huy Lee, better known as “KIDD,” was caught on tape last week painting on the side of an auto parts store. A business the owner claims had been getting tagged once a week for the past two years.Lee, who’d eluded previous attempts at capture by escaping on his bike, was something of a mystery to local taggers. Kyle McCutchen, the Shoreline cop assigned the tagging beat last August, has made 15 arrests in his short time targeting graffiti artists. Each one of them, he says, made full confessions and provided some insight into who was running with which crew and who tagged under which nickname. But no one knew the story behind “KIDD.””Nobody knew who he was,” he says. “They all told me the same thing: ‘I’ve been trying to figure it out too.'”Shoreline police estimate the damage at $30,000.A search warrant of Lee’s house revealed walls covered with his signature. On a digital camera, cops found Lee’s 11-year-old son, spraypaint can in hand, posing next to one of his dad’s tags.Lee has been charged with one count of first-degree malicious mischief and five counts of second-degree malicious mischief. But McCuthchen says the six charges only account for a small amount of the damage he claims Lee is responsible for.”There could have been plenty more,” he says. “We had three years worth of this guy running ruckus through the city. I would estimate there’ve been over 100 victims and some of them are repeat customers. The six counts are just what will be used to get him the maximum sentence possible.”