Bombardier Cesar Sayoc: What We Know About The Florida Suspect

Sayoc, a 56-year-old registered Republican, lives in Aventura, Florida, near the site where many parcels have been sent, authorities said.

Sayoc, who was previously known to law enforcement officials, was arrested nearly a dozen times in Florida, including in 2002 for launching a bomb threat. His criminal record in the country extends until the early 1990s. He was arrested for theft at the age of 29, according to state records. Other charges of theft, robbery and fraud would soon follow in the south of the state.

In the 2002 bomb threat case, Sayoc pleaded guilty to the crime without trial and was sentenced to probation, according to the records.

According to the reservation records of the Miami-Dade County Jail, Sayoc called Florida Power and Light and threatened to blow up the local electricity service. Sayoc said "it would be worse than September 11" and also threatened that something would happen to the FPL representative he was talking to if the utility was cutting electricity.

He declared bankruptcy in 2012, according to a court record claiming that he was living with his mother at that time.

A lawsuit in which Sayoc was filed said that he had run a striptease club called Stir Crazy for 35 years. In this same statement, Sayoc asserted that he was also a professional wrestler, a Chippendales dancer, a professional footballer in Milan and a football player in the arena of Arizona.

Sayoc's relatives could not be contacted immediately for a comment on Friday. A lawyer who previously represented Sayoc refused through his law firm to express Friday by stating, "We know why you are calling and we have no comments."

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Daniel Aaronson, a lawyer who has represented Sayoc over the years, said that none of his clients were "as polite, courteous and respectful to me" as Sayoc. He said that Sayoc had never discussed his political views; If he did, it might have sparked a fight.

"In fact, I'm a democrat," Aaronson told The Post. "I am very proud of some of the people who were targeted … so, if he had said anything in that sense, I would certainly have noticed, because we would have taken part in a discussion policy."

In one case, Aaronson said, Sayoc had been charged with robbery for wearing a suit in a department store. In another document, Sayoc was charged with stealing after crossing the order line of a store and leaving with an item in his shopping cart that he had not presented to the cashier.

Aaronson said that Sayoc had never talked about explosives and that the only allegation of violence had come from the theft of a department store.

"When he was arrested, they accused him of battery on the store's detective; but frankly, if I remember correctly, it was addressed, "said Aaronson.

The social media profiles that apparently belonged to Sayoc were full of conspiracy theories and antipathy toward the liberals. A Twitter account on his behalf mentioned George Soros 34 times, Barack Obama 29 times and Hillary Clinton 21 times.

A tweet presents a picture of Holder, one of the people to whom a pipe bomb was addressed. "This man was murdered for political reasons and got out of it," the tweet said.

A Facebook page supposed to be Sayoc's, which was invalidated shortly after his arrest, was full of pro-Trump anti-liberal memes.

Law enforcement officials have not publicly verified that the accounts are those of Sayoc.

Sayoc attended Brevard College where he appeared on the list of members of the football team, according to a North Carolina school directory. He was also listed as a member of the Canterbury Club, a religious organization. A picture of the directory showed him posing behind a man in a bishop's dress.

His arrest on Friday came after the authorities found a dozen parcels in several states, all addressed to prominent Democrats, Trump critics and the CNN news network.

None of the guns blew up and no one was injured, but the incidents put the officials in a state of alarm while they worried about the number of people. additional devices likely to be available.

After the announcement of Sayoc's arrest, FBI agents and other police officers were seen draping a blue tarp over a van in a parking lot in South Florida. before loading it in a truck and driving it.

President Trump, who appears on many pictures of the Sayoc van, paid tribute to the law enforcement officers who arrested him.

"We will prosecute him, her, whoever it is, to the fullest extent permitted by law," the president told the White House. "We must never allow political violence to take root in America, and I am determined to do everything in my power as president to stop it and stop it now."

Shawn Boburg, Andrew Ba Tran, Julie Tate, Alex Horton, Abby Ohlheiser, Matt Zapotosky and Alex Crites contributed to the writing of this report.

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