When most criminals engage in graffiti or vandalism, they try not to be identified. Leo Awgowhat apparently just doesn’t care.

Memphis police say the long-shot non-partisan candidate for mayor spray painted his last name on two sides of the statue dedicated to Nathan Bedford Forrest.

Thursday night, someone used red paint to spray “Aw Go What” on two sides of the statue above the Confederate general’s grave.

On Friday, police interviewed several people and arrested Awgowhat, charging him with desecration of a venerated object and trespass or injury to a cemetery property, WREG reports.

Awgowhat told investigators one of his “multiple personalities” was to blame for the vandalism, according to the Commercial Appeal, and he denied “direct participation.

He claimed he believed one of four people was responsible, according to a police affidavit.

Fox 13 reports Awgowhat blamed his “imaginary friend” named “Awgo” for defacing the monument.

It’s not the first time the statue has been a target for vandals.

Ten days earlier, someone painted “Black Lives Matter” at the base of the monument, a frequent act occurring across the country.

In late July, a group of race activists surrounded a shovel and ceremoniously removed a chunk of grass and soil.

“We are going to bring the back hoe, the tractors and the men with the equipment to raise Bedford Forrest from the soil of Memphis,” Isaac Richmond with the “Commission on Religion and Racism” declared to awaiting TV cameras, CBS 3 reported.

Richmond ran unsuccessfully for Congress last year.

He believes if the general who died 137 years ago can just be eliminated, that will really help things.

“If he’s gone, some of this racism and race-hate might be gone,” he said, shovel in hand. “We got a fresh shovel full, and we hope that everybody else will follow suit and dig him up.”

Others see their actions as little more than destruction of property.

“They can protest all they want. Just because they don’t like it, doesn’t mean they are right. Digging up the park is just pure and simple vandalism,” says Lee Millar, spokesman Sons of Confederate Veterans.

“We really don’t want to make this a confrontation. We just want to say hey, we want to get on with it!” Richmond insists.

Earlier in the month, the Memphis city council voted unanimously to dig up Forrest’s body and move it somewhere else.

“It is no longer politically correct to glorify someone who was a slave trader, someone who was a racist on public property,” City Council member Myron Lowery said at the time.

Because of the bureaucracy, Forrest’s remains and the statue dedicated to him are regulated by different agencies.