A 27-year-old man was arrested this week after police said they caught him using a sledgehammer to smash an Iwo Jima statue in Quantico, Virginia.
Officers with the Prince William County Police Department responded around 10:13 p.m. Wednesday after someone reported property being destroyed near the Marine Corps Base Quantico main gate. When they got there, they found a man, later identified as Miguel Alonso Maldonado Soriano of Stafford, actively damaging the statue, according to police.
Officers with the Prince William County Police Department responded around 10:13 p.m. Wednesday after someone reported property being destroyed near the Marine Corps Base Quantico main gate. When they got there, they found a man, later identified as Miguel Alonso Maldonado Soriano of Stafford, actively damaging the statue, according to police.
Officers said one of the depicted soldiers’ heads had been removed from the sculpture, and the department estimated the overall cost of the destruction runs into the hundreds of thousands of dollars.
According to the police report,
