Riverside County district attorney's spokesman John Hall said Friday that 25-year-old Ryan Smith of Bermuda Dunes and 26-year-old Matt Seifert of Palm Desert will be charged with misdemeanor vandalism and flag desecration.
The U.S. flag was placed on a La Quinta mountaintop shortly after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
Investigators say the men replaced it Feb. 28 after Canada beat the U.S. to win the men's hockey gold medal.
Hall did not know if the men had hired an attorney, and there were no local phone listings in their names.
