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The truck driver accused of defacing St. Pete's Progressive Pride Flag street mural on Central Avenue and 25th Street in May has been arrested, the St. Petersburg Police Department said in a news release.
30-year-old Antonio Silvestri is being charged with felony criminal mischief and racing on a street, officers said. Surveillance video taken from Ride-em Cowboy, a nearby country bar, allegedly shows Silvestri in a white truck grinding tire marks into the mural on May 17.
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