Thread: FLA. Man Arrested in Connection With Pipe Bombs Sent to Trump Critics

Originally Posted by JohnDoe2

Sayoc is originally from the Bensonhurst neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York.

Sayoc Is a Registered Republican; His Family Was Involved in Fighting the Communist Party of the Philippines


https://heavy.com/news/2018/10/cesar-sayoc/

The article says he registered as a Republican in April 2016. Was he a registered Democrat before that? Just curious. His English in his writings is very poor. Is he an immigrant from the Philippines? Somewhere else? Born here or naturalized citizen? I guess these questions will be answered in coming days.

What we know about pipe bombing suspect Cesar Sayoc Jr.

Staff reports Published 1:39 p.m. ET Oct. 26, 2018 | Updated 2:37 p.m. ET Oct. 26, 2018


(Photo: AP)


Cesar Sayoc Jr., 56, was arrested Friday in Plantation in connection with the mailings of a dozen bomb-like devices to top Democrats, including former presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton.

Sayoc is a registered Republican from South Florida. He was born in Brooklyn, New York but moved to Florida as a child.

He's a 1980 graduate of North Miami Beach High School whose last known address was Aventura in Miami-Dade County.

Multiple media outlets report Sayoc's white van was impounded at the auto parts store. It reportedly had multiple pro-Trump stickers on it.

Multiple news outlets gathered outside a condominium complex Friday afternoon in Aventura where Sayoc was believed to have lived.

Multiple news outlets have gathered Friday, Oct. 26, 2018 outside an apartment in Aventura believed to be connected to pipe bomb suspect Cesar Sayoc Jr. Will Greenlee, will.greenlee@tcpalm.com


He has an extensive criminal record

According to court and other public records obtained by The Associated Press, Sayoc has a lengthy criminal and court record in Florida. He has been convicted on theft, stolen property and traffic charges and in 2002 on a threat to "throw, place, project or discharge any destructive device."

Sayoc was sentenced in August 2002 for threatening to throw a bomb in a conversation with a Florida utility representative, according to Ronald Lowy, a Miami attorney who represented him. Dade County court records showed Sayoc served a year's probation after a judge signed a discharge certificate in November 2002.

Lowy told The Associated Press that Sayoc "made a verbal threat when he was frustrated at a lack of service." Lowy said Sayoc showed no ability at the time to back up his threat with bomb-making expertise.

The lawyer said Sayoc was a bodybuilder then, and displayed no political leanings except for plastering a vehicle he owned with Native American signs.

Court records also show that Sayoc was convicted in the 1990s in Broward County on grand theft and stolen property charges and in 2004 on a felony charge of fraudulent refunds and misdemeanor of tampering with physical evidence.



Online and social diagram details the basic components used in the bomb-like devices that have been delivered to political figures in the past few days. (Photo: Frank Pompa, USA TODAY)


He filed for bankruptcy in 2012

Sayoc filed for bankruptcy in June 2012. At the time, he was living with his mother and owed more than $20,000 to creditors, mostly banks.His total employment income the year before was just over $7,500. And he had collected about $16,000 in unemployment between 1009 and 2010, according to the bankruptcy records.

Syoc also lost his Fort Lauderdale home in a foreclosure in September 2009, according to court records. He filed for bankruptcy protection in June 2012. The court records in that case state he had just $4,175 in assets, including a 2001 Chevy Tahoe with 285,000 miles, and $21,109 in liabilities.

He had trouble with businesses

Sayoc listed his employment as store manager of Hassanco Investments in Hollywood, Florida, from his bankruptcy filing. He received unemployment benefits in 2009 and 2010, the filing stated.

Online Florida business records show that Sayoc in September 2016 registered as the manager for a new Hallandale Beach, Florida, business called Native American Catering & Vending LLC. The state listed the business as inactive last month.

He also previously was the president of a Hallandale Beach company called Proud Native American One Low Price Drycleaning, the state business records show. Registered in 2001, that business was declared inactive the following year, the records show.

The Associated Press contributed to this report. This story will be updated.

https://www.tcpalm.com/story/news/20...jr/1775469002/

Bomb suspect Cesar Sayoc registered as Republican for 2016 election, has long criminal record


Washington Examiner
2 hours ago

Sayoc is a registered Republican in Florida who last voted this year, according to the Nexis database. He registered as a GOP voter 11 days before the 2016 Florida primary and early-voted in Miami-Dade County for the 2018 midterm election primary.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/b...riminal-record

A Facebook profile that appeared to belong to Sayoc featured videos and photos of him at multiple Trump rallies, including at least one in Florida. Several posts contained anti-Muslim statements.

He attended Brevard College in North Carolina and the University of North Carolina in Charlotte and played soccer for both schools, though he did not graduate either one, according to school representatives.

From 1996 to 2002, he worked as a male exotic dancer for Gold Productions Inc, according to a company employee who declined to give his full name.

Sayoc left to pursue a professional wrestling career and later started his own company. He is a promoter, booking agent and "live entertainment owner," according to his LinkedIn profile.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/suspect-b...164555193.html

Sayoc is expected to make his first court appearance on Monday.

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The suspect Sayoc posted these photos of himself at the gym lifting weights. He appears to be a bodybuilder

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