New York Daily News

Train vandals go from Spain into N.Y. pain

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THEY TRAVELED more than 5,700 miles for a fresh canvass — and they found it in the city’s subway system.

Three Spanish graffiti artists took a “spray-cation” to the Big Apple, where they spent their days leaving their marks on train cars throughout the five boroughs, police sources said.

Manuel Cobano-Pareja, 40, Ricardo Espinola-Martin, 36, and Ignacio Dominguez-Robles, 39, were busted spraying their tags — “ORUS” “TATE” and “SENT” — on a No. 4 train at a Utica Ave. subway station near Eastern Parkway in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, early Monday, cops said.

The three quickly confessed and said they were “sorry for painting the train,” according to court documents.

Dominguez-Robles asked for the officers’ forgivenes­s, authoritie­s said.

They are charged with making graffiti and criminal mischief.

Cops quickly learned their tags were also on eight train cars at stations in Queens and Harlem and in three railyards in the Bronx.

The tourists admitted to the vandalism — and the $10,000 in damage to the trains.

They moved from railyard to railyard with a car they rented at Newark Airport, while staying at an Airbnb in the Bronx, police sources said.

After they posted bail in Brooklyn, the men were rearrested in Manhattan for the graffiti in Harlem, authoritie­s said.

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