{"id":2093,"date":"2026-06-22T20:06:34","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T20:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jacksonvillemovingnews.com\/?p=2093"},"modified":"2026-06-22T20:06:34","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T20:06:34","slug":"at-least-five-people-arrested-in-alleged-tampering-of-reflecting-pool-official-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jacksonvillemovingnews.com\/?p=2093","title":{"rendered":"At least five people arrested in alleged tampering of Reflecting Pool, official says"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>At least five people have been arrested in connection with the alleged vandalism of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, an administration official said Monday, as President Donald Trump threatened long prison terms for offenders.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/jacksonvillemovingnews.com\/?p=2091\">FIFA Fan Festival Miami organizers pause entry to event due to heat<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The five arrests and five additional citations to other people have come in the wake of Trump\u00a0saying Saturday, with no evidence so far, that vandals at the Reflecting Pool cut a 250-foot-long \u201cgash into the beautiful facade of what took so much work, competence, and money to build and complete.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Among those arrested was former U.S. Olympic canoeist David \u201cDavey\u201d Hearn, who previously told NBC News he\u00a0was detained for\u00a0five hours Friday after touching a piece of detached coating at the Reflecting Pool.<\/p>\n<p>Over the weekend, following a meeting with contractors at Camp David, Trump said the Reflecting Pool would likely need to be drained again.<\/p>\n<p>Marine One was spotted Sunday flying over the area, and Trump said he\u2019d \u201cinspected\u201d the Reflecting Pool.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"yes\" class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.today.com\/today\/embedded-video\/mmvo265460805743\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;bottom:0;right:0;width:100%;height:100%;\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Trump on Monday morning repeated his claims that the Reflecting Pool is under attack ahead of the nation\u2019s 250th birthday in two weeks.\u00a0In a post on Truth Social, the president said that the Reflecting Pool has \u201cbeen given a 300-foot-long gash\u201d as \u201cchemicals have been illegally\u201d placed in the water.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlease remember that there is a 10-year prison sentence for the destruction, or even the attempted destruction, of such things \u2014 Which will be fully enforced!\u201d Trump added in his Truth Social post.<\/p>\n<p>Tourist Lyndel Monros said the algae was a jarring sight and made the Reflecting Pool anything but the \u201cU.S. blue\u201d that the administration claims is the memorial\u2019s color.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/jacksonvillemovingnews.com\/?p=2089\">Scotland\u2019s Tartan Army buys more than 8,000 tickets to Marlins game for Miami takeover<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not American blue, it\u2019s very green,\u201d Monros told NBC News on Sunday. \u201cI\u2019m not sure what\u2019s going on, but it kind of looks like there\u2019s a septic leak going on, to be honest. It\u2019s a lot worse than what they show on TV. It\u2019s a lot worse in person.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hannah Carol, who lives in the area, said the pool has always had a bit of algae, but it\u2019s never looked as bad as it does now.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s like peeling paint. I got yelled at from the National Guard by just like looking at it too close,\u201d she said. \u201cI saw peeling paint, like, pieces or some type of plastic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Carol said she does not understand why the public is being accused of vandalism.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that if there\u2019s a coating that\u2019s peeling off, if there\u2019s an adhered coating that\u2019s peeling off from the substrate, like it\u2019s not going to go back on. You have to peel it up, and you have to redo it, like it\u2019s not like you\u2019re vandalizing or making the situation worse by taking up something that\u2019s already peeled off,\u201d she said. \u201cYou\u2019re not going to just slap it back on, you\u2019re gonna have to redo it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Work at the Reflecting Pool is being done by Green Water Solutions, which was awarded a $1.7 million no-bid government contract for algae removal.<\/p>\n<p>Green Water Solutions is owned by John J. Cafaro, who gave $250,000 to the Trump Victory Committee in June 2020, according to FEC filings.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/jacksonvillemovingnews.com\/?p=2087\">Man arrested after allegedly hitting victim\u2019s head with bat during fight in Aventura, report says<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The company is tasked with using nanobubble technology to address the algae.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least five people have been arrested in connection with the alleged vandalism of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2092,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[204],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-mall"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>At least five people arrested in alleged tampering of Reflecting Pool, official says - 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