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LAKELAND, Fla., Oct. 4 (UPI) -- Police arrested a Florida man for allegedly claiming he would make the Virginia Tech shootings "look like a (expletive) birthday party" at a class reunion.
Police arrested Timothy Joseph Vaughn, 39, of Lakeland, Fla., Thursday morning for aggravated cyberstalking.
Vaughn had sent the e-mail to a former classmate after the woman contacted Vaughn via a Web site for the Lakeland High School's class of 1985 reunion, the Lakeland Ledger reported.
Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said at a news conference that on Sept. 10, Vaughn sent the woman the following e-mail:
"I have been 20 years getting over your preppy (expletive)! Nobody talked to me back then so stop talking to me now. So (expletive), I can make Virginia Tech look like a (expletive) birthday party. Stop messing with me!"
Investigators later found a cache of various explosives and explosive devices under construction in the man's bedroom, WKMG-TV, Orlando, reported.
Judd said that enough explosives in operational condition existed to blow up a house, the Ledger said.
Vaughn faces 178 counts of possessing a destructive device in addition to the aggravated cyberstalking charge.
He was held without bail pending a court appearance.
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