VA. MAN CHARGED AFTER IWO JIMA STATUE DAMAGED

A Virginia man is facing charges after he allegedly beheaded a World War Two memorial statue using a sledgehammer. Twenty-seven-year-old Miguel Alonso Maldonado Soriano was arrested on Tuesday in Quantico. Officers reportedly observed him using the sledgehammer to damage an Iwo Jima statue, including taking the head off one of the soldiers depicted on the memorial. Damage was estimated at more than 100 thousand dollars. He’s been charged with felony destruction of property, trespass and felony injury to a monument.