Herbert Pulgar, disqualified from city sticker contest, sentenced to probation after stealing car

Wednesday, September 2, 2015
CHICAGO (WLS) -- A teen who initially won Chicago's city sticker contest in 2012 has been sentenced to two years of probation after he stole a car earlier this year.

Herbert Pulgar, 18, pleaded guilty Tuesday to possession of a stolen vehicle. In May, officers stopped Pulgar in the 2800-block of North Kedzie Avenue in Chicago's Logan Square neighborhood around 3:40 a.m.in a stolen vehicle.
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Pulgar's win was scrapped because questions arose about whether his design contained gang symbols.

Pulgar won the contest when he was 15. After he was disqualified, he appeared as a guest of Congressman Luis Guiterrez in Washington, D.C. His artwork hung in an exhibit in the Capitol complex in June of 2012.
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