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Former U.S. Olympic canoeist David “Davey” Hearn has been indicted on a felony charge of destruction of property after his arrest last month at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington, D.C., according to U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro.
Hearn, a former U.S. Olympic canoeist, was charged Thursday in D.C. Superior Court following the June 19 incident.
Hearn has denied damaging the newly renovated reflecting pool, saying he stopped during a bike ride and simply touched a loose piece of the peeling blue layer “to satisfy my curiosity as a citizen.”
The indictment comes after several people were arrested or cited in connection with damage to the Reflecting Pool, which underwent a more than $14 million rehabilitation project during Donald Trump’s presidency.
WHITE HOUSE CONDEMNS ‘TARGETED SABOTAGE’ OF REFLECTING POOL AS REPAIRS PUSHED BEYOND 4TH OF JULY CELEBRATION
Former US Olympian David Hearn has been charged with alleged vandalism at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. (David Madison/Getty Images)
The president had previously blamed vandals for damage to the pool, which features a blue coating he calls “American flag blue.”
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