India, Oct. 23 -- Miguel Alonso Maldonado Soriano has been charged after authorities alleged he used a sledgehammer to behead one of the Marines depicted in a replica of the iconic Iwo Jima memorial at the US Marine Corps Base Quantico in Virginia. The damage caused by the vandalism is estimated to be of hundreds of thousands of dollars.

According to law enforcement, Maldonado Soriano, 27, was arrested around 10:15 pm on Wednesday. Officers allegedly found him striking the monument with a sledgehammer at the Marine Corps installation, located about 36 miles south of Washington, DC.

Authorities said one of the six servicemen represented in the memorial was decapitated during the attack. Additional sections of the limestone monument were ...