A Stafford man is being held without bond after allegedly taking a sledgehammer to the Iwo Jima monument in Quantico.
Around 10:13 p.m. Wednesday, Prince William County police officers responded to the statue near Richmond Highway and Fuller Road in Quantico, just outside Marine Corps Base Quantico. Officers found a man – later identified as 27-year-old Miguel Alonso Maldonado Soriano – “actively damaging the statue with a sledgehammer,” according to a police news release. Officers quickly detained Maldonado Soriano.
Destruction included removal of one of the soldier’s heads. Damages are estimated in the hundreds of thousands of dollars, police said…