Pitt student arrested for PAT graffiti helps police

By ERIC LIDJI Senior Staff Writer

A Pitt student was arrested Thursday in connection with a graffiti incident at a Port… A Pitt student was arrested Thursday in connection with a graffiti incident at a Port Authority Transit station in the South Hills Village.

Bob Grove, a PAT spokesman, said that PAT employees caught a group of people spray-painting graffiti on light rail vehicles around 4 a.m. on Nov. 1. Thomas Lawson, a 20-year-old freshman engineering student, tripped while running away and was held until police arrived, Grove said.

According to Grove, the group vandalized 27 of the Authority