Florida suspicious charged over 13 bombs in mail

BOMB SUSPECT ARRESTED. A man suspected of sending 13 bombs to the US President Donald Trump's liberated criticism is arrested on October 26. File photo shows a police vehicle outside the Warner Center after an explosive device October 24. Photo by Getty Images

NEW YORK, USA – A Florida fan of Donald Trump was arrested and arrested on Friday, October 26, with 13 bombers to the US president in a brazen, week-long spree that inflamed the country ahead of key elections. (READ: De Niro, Biden bring bomb alerts to 10 as intensified manhunt)

Cesar Sayoc, 56, has registered Republican with a criminal past, born in New York and who has lived in a pro-Trump and anti-liberal stickers, has been arrested outside Florida. (READ: U.S. suspicious arrests over pipe bombs, suspicious packages)

The Federal Republic of Germany and the United States, with the federal prosecutor, announced the announcement. (READ: Hollywood star De Niro, train VP Biden latest targets of suspected mail bombs)

If put on trial and convicted, he faces up to 48 years in prison in what politicians on both sides of the aisle have condemned as domestic terrorism.

"We do believe that we have caught the right guy but there is a lot of work still to be done, which is still plenty of unanswered questions," FBI director Christopher Wray told a news conference.

The 13 bombs were sent through the mail, many of them through a US Postal Service processing center in Florida, and Sayoc was tracked down on fingerprint and possible DNA evidence, agents said.

The Republican president congratulated law for what he called a "fantastic job" which he likened to "finding a needle in a haystack."

Speaking before his supporters at a North Carolina campaign rally later that evening, he called the caught attacks "terrorist actions" that must be punished "to the fullest extent of the law."

"Political violence must never be allowed in America and I will do everything in my power to stop it," he said.

In southern Florida, FBI agents and police swarmed the strip mall in Plantation, where the Agence France-Presse photographer covered a covered in blue tarpaulin loaded onto a truck by authorities and driven away.

Trump denies blame

Sayoc is accused of explosive mailing to 11 prominent Democrats or liberal critics of the president, including forming President Barack Obama and Trump's opponent in the 2016 presidential election, Hillary Clinton.

The other targets were former vice president Joe Biden, Hollywood star Robert De Niro, billionaire donor George Soros, CIA trainer director John Brennan, intelligence trainer James Clapper, attorney general Eric Holder, Maxine Waters Congresswoman, and Senators Cory Booker and Kamala Harris .

Waters and Biden were each felt two packages. All the targets are loathed by Trump supporters for their public opposition to the US president and for the recipients of their toxic remarks in the past.

The president admitted to the suspect's political allegiance, but denied any responsibility that he could have played a role in motivating the spree.

"I heard he was a favorite person over me," he told reporters. "There is no blame," he insisted, despite being hounded by political opponents for his response to the crisis.

"The media has been unbelievably unfair to Republicans, conservatives, and certainly to me," he said Friday. "But with all of that being said, we're winning, so I like that."

Asked about the role that rhetoric could have played, the FBI demurred.

"It's too early at this stage for this topic," Wray told reporters in Washington. "We're concerned about people committing acts of violence under any motivation."

Each of the homemade bombs included 6 inches of PVC pipe, a small clock, a battery, wiring and energetic material, defined by Wray as potentially explosive.

The first package was intercepted Monday at Soros Bedford, New York home. The most recent ones on Friday in California, Florida, and New York.

Obama marked with red X

The Clapper and Brennan packages were marked by CNN, a television network often critical of Trump's ire.

Trump has come under fire for his response to the spree, which has been branded domestic terrorism, stretching from New York, Maryland, Florida, Delaware and Los Angeles.

On Friday, shortly before the news of the breakup broke, he said, "It's been a momentous moment for the Republican Party ahead of the elections," remarks that enraged his opponents.

Double Oscar winner and biting Trump criticism of Niro on Friday urged people to vote in the midterms, one day after a device was discovered at the Manhattan offices of his production company.

"I thank God no one has been hurt, and I thank the brave and resourceful security and law enforcement people for protecting us," he said. "There's something more powerful than bombs, and that's your vote, People MUST vote!"

The packages were sent to the world with the flag of the United States flag.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz, chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee, as the sender, and misspelt Florida as "Florids," according to the criminal complaint.

The typed addresses included misspellings Clinton, Obama, and Waters first names. President of the United States of America. – Rappler.com