A 32-year-old man who damaged the statue of King Kamehameha the Great in Hilo and removed and hid the top portion of its bronze spear was sentenced Tuesday to five years in prison, according to the Hawaii Tribune-Herald.

William Roy Carroll III in May was convicted by a jury of second- and third-degree theft and second-degree criminal property damage.

The 6-foot portion of the spear was reported missing from the statue by a tour guide on Labor Day, Sept. 6. The spear and a section of heavy chain stolen from nearby Bayfront Motors, which was used to break the spear, were found two days later by police in an overgrown, grassy area along a flood canal near the statue.

Carroll, who has been in custody at Hawaii Community Correctional Center for almost a year, will receive credit for time served.

The statue, located near downtown Hilo in the Wailoa River State Park, is one of four of King Kamehameha I. The others are in North Kohala on the Big Island, in downtown Honolulu and in the National Statuary Hall in Washington, D.C.

Hawaii County Deputy Prosecutor Haaheo Kahoohalahala said Carroll, who is awaiting trial in Honolulu for a felony drug charge, DUI and driving without a license, violated a court order by leaving Oahu and vandalizing the statue, the newspaper reported.

“Those offenses were committed less than two days after he arrived on the Big Island,” Kahoohalahala said. “Whatever the state offered the defendant prior to trial was rejected by the defendant, and so it should no longer be considered. The state gave the defendant the opportunity to take responsibility for what he did, but he did not and he refuses to take any responsibility for his own actions.”