The alleged bombing charge: Cesar Sayoc arrested in Florida, charged with sending bomb pipe packages in a bomb threat; The van of the confiscated bomb suspect

A retired police officer who arrested a suspect in 2002 claims that he "is not doing well"

A Miami police investigator who had arrested Cesar Sayoc for threatening to blow up a Florida building in 2002 told CBS Miami that he was not surprised to learn that Sayoc had been arrested in connection with the recent wave of parcel bombs.

"Unfortunately, in the forces of order, things like this can come back," said the retired investigator, who spoke on condition that his name be not disclosed.

"I obviously think that person is not doing well," he said.

According to a 2002 police report, Sayoc reportedly called a representative of Florida Power and Light, threatened to blow up the building and said it would be "worse than September 11". He also said that something would happen to the representative when he was cutting electricity.

"No major case stands out in this case," said the former investigator of the mine clearance team.

"We were getting a lot of calls right after 9/11," he said, adding that the complaint was also carried amidst the threats posted in the mail against anthrax terrorizing the elected officials. "Normally, the demining team receives a few calls a month." [in 2002] we had fifteen a day. "

The investigator, accompanied by an officer from the Florida Law Enforcement Department, went to Sayoc's apartment, in Hallandale Beach, for the day. ;Stop. The police report listed the occupation of Sayoc in 2002 as a "dry cleaner".

The investigator said that the arrest had gone well and that Sayoc had cooperated. He eventually pleaded guilty to the bomb threat charge and was sentenced to one year probation.

Former private security advisor, the former bomb technician said that soon after Sayoc 's arrest on Friday morning, he had begun to receive phone calls from former colleagues of the forces of the'. order. "I remembered the name, but not the photo," he said.

The former Miami police investigator said it was impressive, but not shocking, that federal agents had made such a quick arrest in the parcel bomb case. "The investigative tools available to the forces of order are incredible," he said. "There are always tracks available."