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Investigation into pipe bombs sent to Trump critics

By Associated Press

Oct. 25, 2018

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The wave of pipe bombs addressed to prominent Democrats has raised fresh questions about the ability of the U.S. Postal Service and private delivery companies to intercept explosives and other dangerous items. None of the devices so far in this week's scare have detonated. The 56-year-old Florida man charged in the nationwide mail-bomb scare was taken into custody Friday.
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The head of the FBI says the suspect arrested in the mail bombs sent to prominent Democrats was found in part using fingerprint evidence and possible DNA.
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President Trump attacked the media during a rally on the day one of his supporters was charged with mailing bombs to top Democrats, including former President Barack Obama, and other critics of the administration.
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This frame grab from video provided by WPLG-TV shows FBI agents escorting Cesar Sayoc, in sleeveless shirt, in Miramar, Fla., on Friday. Sayoc is an amateur body builder and former male stripper, a loner with a long arrest record who showed little interest in politics until Donald Trump came along. On Friday, he was identified by authorities as the Florida man who put pipe bombs in small manila envelopes, affixed six stamps and sent them to some of Donald Trump's most prominent critics.
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Officers watch over the scene outside the Time Warner Center on Wednesday. Law enforcement officials say a suspicious package that prompted an evacuation of CNN's offices is believed to contain a pipe bomb.
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New York City police officers clear the scene after a report of a possible suspicious package was called in at the Time Warner Center Thursday. The NYPD had said it had evaluated the packages "as a precaution."
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New York City police officers stand by the scene after a report of a possible suspicious package was called in at the Time Warner Center Thursday. Normal activity resumed at the building shortly after police cleared the scene.
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Former Vice President Joe Biden and 27th Congressional District Democratic candidate Nate McMurray campaign and greet workers and patrons in a restaurant Thursday in Lancaster, N.Y. A law enforcement official said a suspicious package addressed to former President Joe Biden were intercepted at Delaware mail facilities in New Castle and Wilmington and were similar to crude pipe bombs sent to former President Barack Obama, Hilary Clinton and CNN.
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In this Dec. 14, 2017 file photo, Steve Robino arranges packages on a conveyor belt at the main post office in Omaha, Neb. The shipment of several pipe bombs to CNN and several prominent Democrats raises fresh questions about mail safety and what measures the U.S. Postal Service and private delivery services take to prevent explosives and other illegal substances from entering into the mail.
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A member of the New York National Guard, center, watches as commuters walk through the World Trade Center Transportation Hub, Thursday. A series of pipe bombs sent to prominent Democrats including Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton has deepened political tensions and fears two weeks before national midterm elections.
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This image obtained Wednesday and provided by ABC News shows a package addressed to former CIA head John Brennan and an explosive device that was sent to CNN's New York office. The mail-bomb scare widened Thursday as law enforcement officials seized more suspicious packages.
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Police have intercepted suspicious packages addressed to actor Robert De Niro and former Vice President Joe Biden.
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Members of the Port Authority Emergency Services Unit stand watch outside the World Trade Center Transportation Hub, Thursday.
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Police tape cordons off a post office in Wilmington, Del., Thursday. A law enforcement official said suspicious packages addressed to former Vice President Joe Biden were intercepted at Delaware mail facilities in New Castle and Wilmington and were similar to crude pipe bombs sent to former President Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and CNN.
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Port Authority police talk to drivers as they make their way toward the George Washington Bridge in Fort Lee, N.J., Thursday. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has said he will increase security at critical spots in the wake of suspicious packages sent primarily to prominent Democrats.
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Police are standing watch near a building associated with Robert DeNiro, Thursday, in New York after reports of a suspicious package.
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Broward Sheriff's Office bomb squad, Sunrise Police and Fire Rescue work the scene where a suspicious package was found Wednesday, inside the Sunrise Utility Administrative Center in Sunrise, Fla., where Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz's office is located inside.
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Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz speaks with a supporter during the Florida gubernatorial debate between Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum and Rep. Ron DeSantis at Broward College, Wednesday, in Davie, Fla.
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NYPD Deputy Commissioner of Intelligence & Counterterrorism John Miller delivers remarks during a press conference after NYPD personnel removed an explosive device from Time Warner Center Wednesday in New York. Other packages were sent to the offices of Gov. Andrew Cuomo and to the home of President Bill Clinton.
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Mayor Bill de Blasio delivers remarks during a press conference.
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President Donald Trump speaks about crude pipe bombs targeting Hillary Clinton, former President Barack Obama, CNN and others, during an event on the opioid crisis, in the East Room of the White House, Wednesday.
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Former Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton joins congressional hopeful Donna Shalala during a campaign stop at the Coral Gables Woman's Club, Wednesday, in Coral Gables, Fla. Clinton expressed her gratitude for law enforcement after a suspicious package addressed to her was seized by the Secret Service at her home in Chappaqua. N.Y.
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An officer with the Uniform Division of the United States Secret Service uses his dog to search a checkpoint near the home of President Barack Obama, Wednesday, in Washington.
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Mailboxes stand outside the entrance to a house owned by philanthropist George Soros in Katonah, N.Y., a suburb of New York City, Tuesday. A device found outside the compound "had the components" of a bomb, including explosive powder, a law enforcement official said.
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