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Man in custody after Trump golf club incident was once convicted of possessing a machine gun

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Ryan Wesley Routh , 58 , has a long criminal and civil court history, including a conviction for possessing a weapon of mass destruction in 2002 .

Court records show more than 100 criminal counts have been filed against Routh in North Carolina , most in Guilford County , which underlies Greensboro , North Carolina .

In an interview with Newsweek in 2022 , Routh said he was 56 at the time and that he was from North Carolina and had flown to Ukraine from Hawaii .