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A Bronx man threatened to blow up a Department of Motor Vehicles building last week after he was told he’d have to wait up to two hours to apply for an ID card, according to court documents filed Friday.
State police wrote that Blailian Vasquez Jr. posted to Facebook on Wednesday that he would “BLOW UP THAT BUILDING DON’T PLAY WITH ME” and tagged the DMV’s official account after visiting a licensing center on Commerce Avenue in the Bronx. Authorities wrote in court documents that Vasquez went to the facility to apply for a state ID card but left after he learned of the marathon wait time…