A 27-year-old man named Miguel Alonso Maldonado Soriano was arrested Wednesday night after police said they caught him allegedly using a sledgehammer to destroy the Iwo Jima statue in Quantico, Virginia.
Just before 10:15 p.m., officers responded to the area near Richmond Highway and Fuller Road to “investigate a destruction of property,” according to the Prince William County Police Department. Upon arrival, police said they found a man using the sledgehammer to damage the statue, including decapitating a soldier.
Maldonado Soriano, from Stafford, Virginia, is facing charges of felony destruction of property, trespass with intent to damage property, and felony injury to a monument.
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Photos show the soldier’s head separated from the body. The cost of damage is estimated to be hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Maldonado Soriano is being held without bond, and his court date is pending.