A granite Ten Commandments monument cracked into pieces on the Arkansas State Capitol grounds after a man drove into the newly installed stone. And it’s highly probable, according to reports, that this same man destroyed a similar monument three years ago in another state.

Private donors funded the resurrection of the 6-foot stone Ten Commandments monument installed Tuesday in Little Rock. The following morning on June 28, a 32-year-old man identified as Michael Tate Reed pummeled the monument with his car.

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“The busted pieces of the granite monolith were seen inside a taped-off barrier near the walkway to the Justice Building before 7 a.m. Wednesday,” Arkansas Online reported. “A set of tire tracks were visible in the grass on the western side of the small slope on which the statue sat. Capitol crews later worked to clean up the hunks of granite.”

Donors paid more than $26,000 for the 6,000-pound monument.

“We had some concerns, just because this was such a highly charged issue with some people,” Chris Powell, a spokesman with the Secretary of State’s Office, stated.

Police arrested Reed of Van Buren, Arkansas. “A Facebook Live video shot early Wednesday and posted on an account belonging to a Michael Reed appears to show the destruction of the monument,” as the Associated Press reported.

“The 18-second video has a one-word descriptive: ‘Freedom.’ The driver in the video says, ‘Oh my goodness,’ and then ‘Freedom’ before smashing into the tablet,” as the Arkansas Times detailed. “[In other posts on this Facebook page,] Reed talks of his religious beliefs (‘Jesus is Lord’) and also belief in separation of church and state (‘There’s no one religion government should support’).”

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Authorities booked Reed into jail shortly after 7:30 a.m. on Wednesday.

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He faces three preliminary charges: defacing objects of public interest, criminal trespass, and first-degree criminal mischief.

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Three years ago, a then-29-year-old man by the same name allegedly drove into a Ten Commandments statue in Oklahoma. “Reed was reportedly diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder after being taken to a mental facility for evaluation following the crash,” Arkansas Online noted of the 2014 incident.