MERSING, Feb. 26 -- A 32-year-old tourist from the Czech Republic has been arrested by police for spray-painting graffiti on building walls in the town last week.

Mersing deputy police chief Deputy Superintendent Sharif Shai Sharif Mondoi said authorities received a report about the unauthorised graffiti at 1.56pm last Sunday.

He said police tracked down the male suspect using footage from several closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras.

"A team from the district Criminal Investigation Division (CID) arrested the foreigner at 3.15pm on the same day.

"Checks revealed that the suspect is a Czech national who came to Mersing as a tourist. He is of sound mind and not involved in drug abuse," he said in a statement today.

Following the a...