He proved that Sunday night while performing his duties as door security at Madison Bear Garden on West Second Street.

Shortly after 11 p.m. Dow said he was outside the business talking with a female employee when he noticed a man defacing the wall of a parking lot across the street with spray paint.

Dow, 24, said he ran up on the man and made it known in no uncertain terms how he felt about graffiti.

"The guy freaked out," Dow recalled, but ran west on Second Street in an attempt to get away.

Dow caught up with him on Salem Street and took him down to the ground.

"At that point, I sat on him, called police, and waited for them to show up."

He said Chico State University officers were the first to arrive, followed closely by city cops.

Dow said he suffered only minor cuts and scrapes from struggling with the man on the sidewalk.

An investigation showed that the suspect, identified as Luke Eugene Ricci, 24, had also allegedly tagged a building housing Upper Crust Pizza, as well as Moxies Cafe in the 100 block of Broadway, and a building in the 200 block of West Second Street.

He was arrested on suspicion of vandalism and booked into the Butte County Jail in Oroville.

Ricci allegedly used black spray paint, but a police report didn't describe the nature of the taggings he left behind.

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