Former US Olympian David Hearn indicted in alleged Reflecting Pool vandalism

Former U.S. Olympic canoeist David "Davey" Hearn has been indicted connected a felony demolition of spot complaint aft his apprehension past period astatine the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool successful Washington, D.C., according to U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro.

Hearn, a erstwhile U.S. Olympic canoeist, was charged Thursday successful D.C. Superior Court pursuing the incidental connected June 19.

Hearn has denied damaging the precocious renovated Reflecting Pool, saying helium stopped during a motorcycle thrust and simply touched a escaped portion of the peeling bluish coating "to fulfill my curiosity arsenic a citizen." 

The indictment comes aft respective radical were arrested oregon cited successful transportation with harm to the Reflecting Pool, which underwent a much than $14 cardinal rehabilitation task nether President Donald Trump.

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Former U.S. Olympian David Hearn was indicted implicit alleged vandalism astatine the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. (David Madison/Getty Images)

The president had antecedently blamed vandals for the harm to the pool, which features a bluish coating helium calls "American emblem blue."