The Robert E. Lee and Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson statues in Charlottesville were vandalized Friday night according to a report from The Daily Progress. 

Officers charged Christopher James Wayne, 34, of Richmond, with trespassing and vandalism for the second time. An unidentified man was also with him, and officials were instructed to stay on the "lookout."

Friday evening, officers received a call that the black tarps covering the statue had been removed and that the orange fencing around the base of Robert E. Lee statue had been tampered with. When cops arrived at Emancipation Park, witnesses identified the suspect. 

Wayne was also charged with trespassing last week after the tarps were removed a couple times over the weekend. 

Robert E. Lee and Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson were both famous Confederate generals during the American Civil War. The city of Charlotteville made headlines on August 12, when the "Unit the Rally" turned the city into race riots and protest.

Originally, the statutes were voted to be taken down last February, according to the Cavalier Daily. The Monument Fund, Inc. and the Virginia Division of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, Inc. along with 11 community members, filed a lawsuit a month after the vote citing that the city had a duty to "protect and defend historic monuments.' 

City officials decided to cover the statues with tarps instead as a temporary solution. In the most recent hearing, on February 7, the Circuit Court Judge Richard E. Moore failed to make a decision on whether or not to remove the statues.

The monuments will stay covered with tarps until the next hearing that is scheduled for  Feb. 27 at 10 a.m.