Original Article Corrections officer is jailed on graffiti charge PHOENIX - A juvenile corrections officer was arrested Thursday night on charges he painted graffiti on a wall and fled from police. A Phoenix patrol officer saw Pablo Mendez, 28, in an alleyway in the 3100 block of West Garfield Street around 11 p.m. Mendez, a corrections officer at the Eagle Point School inside the state's Southwest Regional Juvenile Corrections Complex in Buckeye, appeared to be spraying graffiti on a block wall facing the alley, said Detective Tony Morales, a spokesman for the Phoenix Police Department. The officer confronted Mendez, who fled. When the officer caught him, Mendez resisted and the officer used pepper spray to subdue him, Morales said. He was being held at a Maricopa County jail on charges of graffiti, criminal damage and resisting arrest.