The graffiti had appeared in 27 different Albury locations on three consecutive nights, before police allegedly spotted Samuel Cairns on Wilson Street at 3am.

He had allegedly covered his face and was armed with a knife when he tried to resist arrest, but after a short foot pursuit, he was arrested and taken to Albury Police Station.

Cairns appeared in Albury Local Court on Friday afternoon where defence solicitor Tim Hemsley said more legal advice was needed before deciding whether to plead guilty or not guilty.

The graffiti occurred at businesses in Union Bank Lane, Wilson Street, Spencer Street, Young Street and Dean Street between Wednesday and Friday, and made comments about police in Albury's drug squad taking drugs for information.

Police charged the man with 32 offences including 27 counts of malicious damage, resist police, possess knife, possess cutting weapon on apprehension, face blackened commit indictable offence and possess means of disguising face commit indictable offence.

The damage was estimated in the tens of thousands of dollars.

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Magistrate Tony Murray refused to grant Cairns bail, saying he was a risk to the community and if found guilty, he would be sent to jail "for a long period of time".

The court heard Cairns allegedly fled from police in the early hours of Thursday morning before reoffending on Friday, when police had to "get physical with the accused" to place him under arrest.

Mr Hemsley argued the police case was circumstantial, but prosecutor Sergeant Erica Mulligan said Cairns was found in the bushes near the graffiti with black spray cans, wearing the same clothes as seen on CCTV near the site of more graffiti the night before.

A DNA sample was taken in an attempt to link Cairns to the other graffiti.

"There appears to be a large repeat of those words (written in graffiti)," Mr Murray said.

"The prosecution case will only get stronger of the DNA ties him to the items found, namely the spray cans."

Cairns lives in a rental property in Kew, but told the court as he was being taken back into custody that his parents lived in Barnawartha.

Sergeant Mulligan said he gave police his mother's phone number, but when detectives called and identified themselves, she hung up on them.

Cairns had offered to put up $2500 as security if he was released on bail.

He was remanded in custody to reappear in court on January 7.

Speaking before court, Albury Detective Sergeant Chris Wallace said the 28-year-old was allegedly in possession of black cans of spray paint and a knife when arrested.

"Police were active in the area looking for this person, and had been since it all commenced, and have come across some fresh graffiti and acted upon that quite quickly. He was located a short distance from that," he said.

"The same slogans that had been getting around, he'd done that on a couple of businesses out on Urana Road (on Friday) morning."

He said he was relieved the person allegedly responsible had been arrested, but found no evidence of how it could be connected to Albury police or anyone who has provided information.

"For three days what we've been seeing around this town is horrible - it's defaced a lot of nice buildings, it's just silly," Detective Wallace said.

"We investigated the possibility that it might be some sort of motivation against a police officer or against people in the community who provide information to the police, but we weren't able to establish that at all and it just made no sense."

He said police would not tolerate this type of graffiti.

"We have a number of police in different sections in the station here so we had investigators and our intelligence staff looking at possible suspects trying to profile people that could be responsible," he said.

"We were reaching out for community help, then we had other police that were purposely put on an operation last night to be in positions around our town to try and find this person - and it worked."