National Park Service workers use vacuum pumps to clean algae off the bottom of the newly renovated Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington, D.C., on June 20. A former Olympic kayaker was indicted for allegeldy damaging the reflecting pool. File Photo by Pat Benic/UPI | License Photo
July 2 (UPI) -- U.S. Olympian David "Davey" Hearn was indicted Thursday on a charge of destruction of property following his arrest last month.
Hearn told NBC News he was arrested and detained for five hours June 19 after he touched a piece of the detached coating in the pool.
He said he had stopped at the landmark during a bike ride "to satisfy my curiosity as a citizen of what was happening with all the algae and the peeling blue coating."
Hearn, 67, said he did not remove, tear or destroy any of the coating.
