HIRAM, Ohio -- Two men have been arrested in the beheading of a statue of President James Garfield on the grounds of an Ohio college.
An indictment returned last week charges Scott Plesotis Jr. and Joseph Regets with vandalism, a felony. They're accused of taking the head off the sandstone statue a day after it was dedicated last May at Hiram College in northeast Ohio.
The head was recovered in July and the statue has since been restored.
Ohio native Garfield was a student and later the principal of the school that became Hiram College years before he was elected the nation's 20th president.
A spokesman for the college says the suspects are not students. They were arrested Tuesday and released on personal recognizance bonds with arraignments scheduled for Feb. 8.
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