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Accused mail bomber hit with 30-count indictment

The accused mail bomber who allegedly sent suspicious packages to a slew of prominent Democrats and critics of President Trump was hit Friday with a 30-count indictment.

Federal prosecutors said Cesar Sayoc mailed as many as 15 pipe bombs to politicians including the Obamas, former Vice President Joe Biden and Sens. Kamala Harris and Cory Booker, among others, last month.

He was charged by a grand jury in Manhattan on Friday following his Oct. 26 arrest in Plantation, Florida.

The indictment charges him with with five counts each of use of a weapon of mass destruction, interstate transportation and receipt of explosives, threatening interstate communications, illegal mailing of explosives, use of explosives to commit a felony, and use of a destructive device during and in furtherance of a crime of violence.

His fingerprint allegedly was picked up on two of the envelopes he sent.

Sayoc, 56, who drove around in a white van decorated with pro-Trump stickers and red crosshairs over some of his rivals, including Hillary Clinton, was recently extradited from the Sunshine State to New York to face charges.

He’s being held without bail and faces a sentence of life in prison.

A lawyer for Sayoc had no comment.