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.

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