By . Ryan Gorman . PUBLISHED: . 11:19 EST, 12 January 2014 . | . UPDATED: . 11:27 EST, 12 January 2014 . Facing the music: Jesse Calloway turned himself in and was charged with misdemeanor graffiti . A Houston teenager turned himself in to police Friday to . face charges over defacing a replica Space Shuttle. Jesse Calloway, 19, was wanted for scrawling racist and . politically-motivated graffiti Nov 27 on the replica shuttle outside Space . Center Houston. The graffiti defaced one side of the model, and included the . words ‘Houston we are the problem.’ Racist messages and a cartoon teddy bear were also scribbled . on to the right side of the mock space ship. The brazen work was first discovered by a tour bus operator . cruising past the landmark site, according to KHOU. Mr Calloway had been wanted for some time before turning . himself in to the Harris County Precinct 8 Constable’s Office, according to the . station. Officials were tipped off to him being the vandal through an . anonymous call to Crime Stoppers. The teen told investigators that he was part of a group of . people who tagged the ship in the early morning hours of Nov 27, officials told . the Houston Chronicle. Vandalized: Words and pictures were spray painted all over the Space Shuttle's right side . 'The ultimate tag': Mr Calloway boasted of his graffiti prowess while being questioned by investigators . ‘He told investigators this would be the ultimate tag,’ an . official told the paper. The hooligan has not named the other people who helped him . deface the space ship, the official added. Visitors to the park the day the graffiti was discovered . told KHOU they didn’t understand why someone would deface a replica space . shuttle. ‘I think probably, to the people, they thought there was a . message, but no one else besides them knows, and it’s kind of pointless . really,’ one woman told the station. ‘To do it with this, it’s kind of off the wall,’ another . visitor said. ‘It’s disgusting.’ It cost roughly $500 to clean the spray paint off the . shuttle, which arrived in Houston in 2012, according to KHOU. It had previously . been on display at Florida’s Kennedy Space Center. Pointless: Park visitors said they didn't understand what the vandals were trying to say with the graffiti . It is sitting outside Houston’s Johnson Space Center and . will be part of a larger exhibit on the history of the space program, according . to the Chronicle. Mr Calloway was charged with misdemeanour graffiti and . granted a $1,000 bail. He has since posted and been released. Investigators are still working to find the other vandals.
A group of young adults defaced the Space Shuttle in the early morning hours of November 27 .
Mr Calloway turned himself in but refused to give up his co-conspirators .
He boasted to investigators of his work being 'the ultimate tag'
By . Ryan Gorman . PUBLISHED: . 11:19 EST, 12 January 2014 . | . UPDATED: . 11:27 EST, 12 January 2014 . Facing the music: Jesse Calloway turned himself in and was charged with misdemeanor graffiti . A Houston teenager turned himself in to police Friday to . face charges over defacing a replica Space Shuttle. Jesse Calloway, 19, was wanted for scrawling racist and . politically-motivated graffiti Nov 27 on the replica shuttle outside Space . Center Houston. The graffiti defaced one side of the model, and included the . words ‘Houston we are the problem.’ Racist messages and a cartoon teddy bear were also scribbled . on to the right side of the mock space ship. The brazen work was first discovered by a tour bus operator . cruising past the landmark site, according to KHOU. Mr Calloway had been wanted for some time before turning . himself in to the Harris County Precinct 8 Constable’s Office, according to the . station. Officials were tipped off to him being the vandal through an . anonymous call to Crime Stoppers. The teen told investigators that he was part of a group of . people who tagged the ship in the early morning hours of Nov 27, officials told . the Houston Chronicle. Vandalized: Words and pictures were spray painted all over the Space Shuttle's right side . 'The ultimate tag': Mr Calloway boasted of his graffiti prowess while being questioned by investigators . ‘He told investigators this would be the ultimate tag,’ an . official told the paper. The hooligan has not named the other people who helped him . deface the space ship, the official added. Visitors to the park the day the graffiti was discovered . told KHOU they didn’t understand why someone would deface a replica space . shuttle. ‘I think probably, to the people, they thought there was a . message, but no one else besides them knows, and it’s kind of pointless . really,’ one woman told the station. ‘To do it with this, it’s kind of off the wall,’ another . visitor said. ‘It’s disgusting.’ It cost roughly $500 to clean the spray paint off the . shuttle, which arrived in Houston in 2012, according to KHOU. It had previously . been on display at Florida’s Kennedy Space Center. Pointless: Park visitors said they didn't understand what the vandals were trying to say with the graffiti . It is sitting outside Houston’s Johnson Space Center and . will be part of a larger exhibit on the history of the space program, according . to the Chronicle. Mr Calloway was charged with misdemeanour graffiti and . granted a $1,000 bail. He has since posted and been released. Investigators are still working to find the other vandals.
turned himself in and was charged with the landmark site, according to KHOU. Mr Calloway group of . people who tagged the ship in the early morning hours of Nov 27, officials told . Calloway boasted of his graffiti prowess while investigators this would be the ultimate tag,’ an