Judge Petula Metzler set a $2,500 bond for Miguel Alonso Maldonado Soriano in the Quantico memorial case.

Monday's bond order is a release condition on state charges. It is not a finding that he damaged the memorial, and it is not a sentence. Prince William Times and WJLA agree on the $2,500 figure and on the prosecution's objection. They do not agree on whether an earlier judge granted cashless bail, on how many ICE detainers exist, or on what name he gave for a rapper. NBC4 did not print the dollar amount.

Prince William Times reported that Prince William County Circuit Court Judge Petula Metzler on Monday, Oct. 26, 2026, ruled that Miguel Alonso Maldonado Soriano, 27, could leave the Prince William County-Manassas Adult Detention Center if he posted a $2,500 cash bond, submitted to a mental-health evaluation and treatment, wore a GPS monitor, and entered pretrial supervision. The paper reported she also ordered him not to drink alcohol or take any drugs. WJLA reported Chief Judge Petula Metzler granted a $2,500 bond after the commonwealth's attorney's office argued against release and his lawyer argued for it. Prince William Times reported his lawyer, Barry Zweig, said a judge had granted him bond last week and that prosecutors appealed. WJLA reported a general district court judge had granted cashless bail and that prosecutors appealed to circuit court. Cashless bail and a bond that the paper did not call cashless are not the same description of last week's order. Prince William Times reported he had not posted the $2,500 Monday night and was still in the county jail, and that his next hearing in general district court is Jan. 11, 2027. NBC4 reported a preliminary hearing was set for January and did not print the day or the dollar amount.

Prince William Times, citing Prince William County police, reported he has been held since late Wednesday, Oct. 21, when police said they found him striking the Iwo Jima memorial outside Marine Corps Base Quantico with a sledgehammer at about 10:13 p.m. and charged him with three felonies. WJLA reported the three counts as felony destruction of property, trespassing with intent to damage property, and felony injury to a monument, and reported officers said they caught him using a sledgehammer on the statue near Richmond Highway and Fuller Road, removing the head from one figure and damaging the face of another. NBC4 reported the charge it named as felony destruction of property and reported he is accused of breaking a Marine's head off the statue Wednesday night. Prince William Times reported a release it attributed to the District Attorney's Office of the Eastern District of Virginia described the complete removal of one Marine's head, the removal of multiple rifle barrels, and the defacing of other parts of the monument. Head and face, in WJLA, and head plus rifle barrels, in that release as the Times reported it, are two damage lists. WJLA and NBC4 reported police estimated the damage at hundreds of thousands of dollars. NBC4 reported the statue is a nine-foot limestone carving by Felix Weihs de Weldon at the base, made in the late 1940s and early 1950s after Joe Rosenthal's photograph, and quoted Keil Gentry of the National Museum of the Marine Corps saying repairs were "likely to be challenging." The three counts WJLA listed are charges. They are not a verdict.

Prince William Times reported the same federal release, issued after the bond hearing, said that once he leaves state custody he "will be transferred to federal custody" to face charges related to the memorial that are punishable by up to 10 years. This file has not separately quoted that release. On immigration holds, the Times reported Detective Mary Wells, of the Joint Terrorism Task Force, testified that ICE told her two detainers had been lodged, and that she said, "the ICE detainer will be served on him, and he will be taken into ICE custody." The paper reported Metzler found he is not a flight risk because of those detainers and said, "He will be held by ICE." WJLA reported one detainer was revealed in court Monday. NBC4 reported a detective said ICE issued a detainer because he is not a green card holder, and that if he is released he could be picked up by federal immigration agents. Two detainers, in the Times, and a detainer, in WJLA and NBC4, are not the same count. Prince William Times reported his status was not discussed at the hearing and remains unclear, and that Zweig said he was brought to the United States at age 1, has lived in Stafford for 26 years, went to Stafford public schools, graduated from high school, attended college in Virginia for about a year, owns a mobile home in Stafford, and has a child who lives in Northern Virginia. The child is not named. WJLA reported the lawyer said he has a daughter and owns a home in Stafford. A mobile home and a home are not the same noun. WJLA, citing an ICE release, reported he entered the United States in 1999, was granted Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals status in October 2014, had that status renewed, and that it has since expired, with a renewal denied on Oct. 23. NBC4 reported he has lived in Stafford County since he was a year old. An ICE account of an expired status and the Times's report that his status was not discussed and remains unclear are both in this file.

What he told police is also not one account. Prince William Times reported prosecutor Alex Brandler said Maldonado Soriano told officers he had been told to do it by Lil Baby, and that he told police he had tried to join the Marines and was denied for lack of a green card. NBC4 reported a detective testified he told detectives that DaBaby told him to desecrate the statue. WJLA reported police said he claimed a well-known rapper encouraged him on social media, and did not print a name. WJLA reported prosecutors said he targeted the monument because he applied to the Marine Corps and was not allowed because he is in the country illegally. Lil Baby and DaBaby are not the same name. A missing green card and a prosecutor's statement that he is in the country illegally are not the same finding. Prince William Times reported Wells testified that he made statements that he was suicidal during the incident, that the jail started mental-health assessments, and that his status was noted as "possible schizophrenia." The paper reported Brandler argued he should be held because the detainers might give him a reason to flee and because he could be a danger to himself, and that Metzler said he was dealing with "undiagnosed, untreated mental health issues." NBC4 reported prosecutors argued online threats were a reason to hold him for his protection, and that the defense said the bond law is not written that way. Those statements are testimony and argument at a bond hearing. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.