Man accused of smashing Iwo Jima statue with sledgehammer
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.
TL;DR
- Miguel Alonso Maldonado Soriano, 27, was arrested for allegedly destroying the Iwo Jima statue.
- The incident occurred in Quantico, Virginia, on Wednesday night.
- Police found Soriano using a sledgehammer to damage the statue, including decapitating a soldier.
- The cost of the damage is estimated to be hundreds of thousands of dollars.
- Soriano faces charges of felony destruction of property, trespass with intent to damage property, and felony injury to a monument.
- He is being held without bond, and his court date is pending.