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Suspect in mail bombs was strip club manager, wannabe wrestler and criminal with anti-Democratic streak

The Florida man accused of sending bombs to top Democrats across the U.S. is a registered Republican with a criminal record who angrily criticized liberals on social media and who has a flamboyant history as a strip club manager and aspiring wrestler.

Cesar Altieri Sayoc Jr., 56, was arrested Friday in the northern Miami suburb of Plantation, Fla., after the FBI said one of Sayoc's fingerprints was found on an envelope containing a bomb sent to Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif.

At the scene, federal officials also towed away Sayoc's white van, which was covered with pro-Trump, anti-Democratic and anti-CNN stickers - like a physical version of the hostile posts and political memes posted on a Twitter account under Sayoc's first and middle

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