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Three more people have been criminally charged with destruction of property at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. Officers say they detained Cameron Thiers, Sophie Dennison-Gibby and Justin Carreno one Saturday afternoon in June and described in court documents witnessing them peeling and removing pieces of blue paint from the Reflecting Pool. One officer “witnessed Carreno reach down into the reflecting pool and pull up a piece of the blue paint,” according to the court documents. The officer who detained Dennison-Gibby “found 1 additional piece of the reflecting pool liner” in her purse, the documents said. All three incidents were recorded on the officers’ body worn cameras, they said in the court documents. Several “partnering law enforcement agencies assigned to the Reflecting Pool” working with US Park Police were involved in detaining the two men and one woman — including officers from Texas, Oklahoma, Montana and California. One of the officers said in court documents that Thiers “admitted to removing a piece of blue sealant from the Reflecting Pool and still had it in his hand when I made contact with him.” The three defendants were arraigned in cour