A serial graffiti artist who lives in Wyoming and has been spray-painting “Ciga” onto public and private property across the country for a decade is wanted again, this time in Cody, court records show.
Marc Meadowcroft, 28, of Cheyenne, could face up to 10 years in prison if caught and convicted this time. He’s charged with one count of felony property destruction.
Meadowcroft snagged headlines in the Boston Globe and other outlets in 2015 after vandalizing two vintage trolleys on display in the city the year prior, with towering bubble letters of his signature tag, “Ciga.”
In the months between the crime and Meadowcroft’s arrest, police received more reports of “Ciga” surfacing on people’s private property throughout Boston.
Meadowcroft was eventually caught and pleaded guilty.
But he was accused of vandalism again in 2016, and again and 2018.
Police arrested him in 2021 near his girlfriend’s home in lower Manhattan on suspicion of scrawling “Ciga” throughout New York at least five times, including on a Times Square billboard and a Chinatown parking meter, Yahoo News reported.
Now he’s wanted again.
Park County authorities filed a warrant for Meadowcroft’s arrest on Halloween, and the local jail does not show him on the roster. The Cody Police Department did not respond to a voicemail request for comment.
Midnight In Cody
The investigation started the morning of Oct. 29, when Cody Police Department Officer Garret Rothleutner responded to a man reporting that someone had spray painted “ciga” on his fence the night before, according to an evidentiary affidavit filed in the case.
Rocky Mountain Discount Liquor offered a video recording of the event, which showed a 2000s model Chevy Silverado 1500 extended cab, silver two-tone truck pulling into the drive-thru exit at the liquor store at about midnight, says the affidavit.
The truck had a chrome toolbox in its bed, the officer added.
According to the document, the video shows a person dressed in a grey hoodie and grey pants with white sneakers exit the vehicle and spray-paint blue graffiti on the mesh covering the chain link fence: a 5-foot-tall, 25-foot-long “ciga.”
Rothleutner later learned that a brick building in the area was also tagged, he wrote in the affidavit.
A police sergeant had stopped a Chevy matching the description overnight, and had seen a spray-paint can and a clown mask in the truck’s passenger seat, the officer added.
Body camera footage revealed a grey-clad man, alone in the truck. The driver was identified as Marc Meadowcroft, says the document.
Investigators also found the word “ciga” spray-painted in purple on a step between the Conoco Country Store and Boot Barn, Rothleutner wrote. Security camera video from the store shows a silver Chevy with a chrome toolbox in the bed, the affidavit says, adding that the grey-clad subject spray-painted the step while fueling up his truck at about midnight.
A serial graffiti artist who lives in Wyoming and has been spray-painting “Ciga” onto public and private property across the country for a decade is wanted again, this time in Cody, police say. (Courtesy Wes Allen) 
A serial graffiti artist who lives in Wyoming and has been spray-painting “Ciga” onto public and private property across the country for a decade is wanted again, this time in Cody, police say. (Andrew Rossi, Cowboy State Daily) 
A serial graffiti artist who lives in Wyoming and has been spray-painting “Ciga” onto public and private property across the country for a decade is wanted again, this time in Cody, police say. (Andrew Rossi, Cowboy State Daily)
At Sunlight
Also Oct. 29, Cody police responded to Sunlight Sports, where a 6-foot-wide, 4-foot-tall “ciga” emblazoned a storage trailer in yellowish tan.
Wes Allen, co-owner at Sunlight Sports, told Cowboy State Daily he didn’t know many details of the case, only that he’d have to pay to have the trailer repainted. It’s a semitrailer that holds the shop’s winter gear, Allen said.
He said he hopes authorities are able to catch and stop the graffiti vandal.
While at Sunlight investigators learned of more graffiti down the road on three more buildings and three City of Cody dumpsters — all saying “ciga” in black spray paint, says the affidavit.
He’s Here, He’s There
Rothleutner obtained a National Data Exchange report from the FBI that says Denver police caught Meadowcroft tagging “Ciga” in 2016, the officer wrote in the affidavit. In 2023, the city of Miami, Florida, arrested Meadowcroft and recovered several spray paint cans after passersby saw a man tagging an abandoned building.
Rothleutner’s affidavit also references a March 13, 2015, Bostone Magazine story detailing the trolley incident.
The costs of cleaning and replacing chain link fence would cost the city and its affected residents more than $1,000, Rothleutner concluded, making the vandalism chargeable as a felony property destruction.
Clair McFarland can be reached at clair@cowboystatedaily.com.
