LEWISTON — Four Lewiston men were indicted this week on charges they vandalized a Lewiston cemetery in August.

Shane Michael Haskell, 20, of 139 Park St., Billie J. Coburn, 18, of 131 Horton St., Jesse L. Macia, 18, of 125 Pierce St., and John W. Manchester, 20, of 85 Whipple St., were indicted on charges of aggravated criminal mischief, desecration and defacement, interference with a cemetery or burial ground and criminal trespass.

On the morning of Aug. 21, a swath of destruction was discovered at Riverside Cemetery on Summer Street. Police said an estimated 150 gravestones and monuments were overturned in the rampage. Damage was believed to top $50,000.

The discovery caused outrage across the city and beyond, but it also roused a spirit of cooperation. Many people volunteered money or time to clean up the cemetery. The Lewiston Maineiacs hockey team turned out to help right heavy monuments that would have required machinery to lift.

Around the same time, police gathered evidence at the cemetery that led them to an Auburn man accused of providing liquor to the underage vandals. From there, police were able to identify suspects in the vandalism spree.

One of the suspects, Coburn, publicly apologized a day after he was arrested for his role in the destruction.

“What I did was wrong and I regret every second of it,” Coburn wrote in a letter delivered to the Sun Journal. “I would not have been a part of this if I had a sober mind at the time, but I know there’s no time for excuses.”

Coburn offered to help clean up the cemetery, but because of conditions of his release from jail, he was not allowed to go to Riverside.

The indictments, handed up Wednesday, list the names of those whose property was damaged. Roughly 70 names appear.

Those indicted this week have been summoned to appear in court to answer the charges against them.