A well-known graffiti artist was busted tagging a wall in Bushwick — and he says star-struck cops Googled him while he was in a holding cell.
Kenny Scharf, 55, said he had a cameraman with him Saturday as he was tagging a wall on Morgan Avenue.
While he was spraying a cartoon snake, cops rolled up and arrested him.
The artist was part of the East Village art scene of the 1980s and rose to fame with Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring.
“The initial cops that took me in liked what I did. They knew the mural I did on Metropolitan Avenue,” Scharf told The Post.
“They Googled me, and they were asking me all different things about my career,” he added.
Scharf, who has a show at the Paul Kasmin Gallery on West 27th Street, was arraigned on charges of attempted criminal mischief, attempted making graffiti and possession of graffiti instruments.