Mail bomb suspect identified as Cesar Sayoc. Man arrested in Florida in connection to suspicious packages was known to law enforcement; Catherine Herridge reports on what led investigators to the suspect.
The mailings prompted nationwide alerts at post offices, as well as work and personal locations of potential targets. The sentence spared Sayoc from the term of life imprisonment recommended by prosecutors and federal sentencing guidelines but doubled the 10-year minimum sentence urged by federal defenders.
Court records show Sayoc has a history of arrests, notably a 2002 charge of making a bomb threat, which allegedly put him on law enforcement's radar.
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Mail bomb suspect Cesar Sayoc was a mentally ill man searching for a way to fit into American society, and he found it by acting on President Donald Trump’s vengeful rhetoric, said the Miami lawyer who represented Sayoc in a previous bomb threat case.
Lowy hasn’t spoken to Sayoc in a decade but he still represents Sayoc’s mother and two sisters. He met the mother, Madeleine Giardiello, at a local hospital Friday, where she was recovering from surgery, he said. She’s a lifelong Democrat but her son never showed much interest in politics and had never voted until two years ago, she told Lowy.
Cesar Altieri Sayoc has been arrested in connection with the suspicious packages that were sent across the country to high-profile Democratic politicians and liberal personalities, as well as to CNN’s headquarters in New York City.
In 2014, Sayoc was arrested on a petit theft charge and violation of probation. He was sentenced to 30 days in jail. Sayoc filed for bankruptcy in 2012 and was not married at the time. He was working as a store manager at a supermarket in Hollywood, Florida, at the time.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions says that Sayoc faces five felony charges. If convicted, he could spend 58 years in prison. You can read the full complaint against Sayoc here.
The 56 year old Sayoc is is a resident of Aventura, Florida and is originally from the Bensonhurst neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. He has a lengthy criminal record and a history of making violent threats against people he disagreed with. Sayoc was arrested in Plantation, Florida on October 26.
Sayoc’s account was suspended after his arrest on October 26, but some of his tweets were preserved in screenshots. . Sayoc’s account also sent an angry message to TMZ on Twitter on October 19 that read, “You biggest piece crap media TMZ , that were complete silent Obama separating kids .
If the MAGA bomber is indeed Cesar Sayoc , as law enforcement source are now telling multiple media outlets, he’s a registered Miami-Dade County Republican who registered in 2016 and voted early in both the primary and the general in 2016. pic.twitter.com/1E43uliP0S
He says on his Twitter page that he is a former professional soccer player and cage fighter. The Sun Sentinel reports that Sayoc is the owner of two businesses, Native American Catering and Ver Tech AG. 3.
Cesar Sayoc, a 56-year-old who lived in Aventura, Florida, was taken into custody Friday and charged with five federal crimes. He was arrested at an auto parts store in Plantation, located about 20 miles from Opa-locka, where investigators discovered several suspicious packages in a U.S. postal facility. Cesar Sayoc, of Aventura, Florida, has been ...
Sayoc will be prosecuted in New York City, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press. He will face charges in federal court in Manhattan after an initial court appearance in Florida. Fox News' Barnini Chakraborty, Brooke Singman, Catherine Herridge, Bill Mears and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Sayoc, a former New Yorker who now resides in Aventura, Florida, is a "promoter" and "booking agent" for male stripper and burlesque shows, including touring dance troupe Chippendales, according to multiple reports.
Sayoc was also convicted in 2014 for grand theft and misdemeanor theft of less than $300, and in 2013 for battery. In 2004, he faced several felony charges for unlawful possession of a synthetic anabolic steroid often used to help build muscles. He also had several arrests for theft in the 1990s and faced a felony charge for obtaining fraudulent ...
Charged with 65 felony counts, Sayoc, 57, faced between 121 months and life in prison. US District Judge Jed Rakoff decided that Sayoc’s failure to create bombs ...
His sentencing date was originally September 12 , but Baumgartel convinced Rakoff to agree to an earlier date, explaining that Sayoc was anxious about the matter. Prosecutors led by US Attorney Geoffrey Berman of the Southern District of New York filed a request in July asking that Sayoc be sentenced to life in prison.
US District Judge Jed Rakoff decided that Sayoc’s failure to create bombs that would detonate and harm his targets was “a conscious choice.”. “He hated his victims, he wished them no good,” said Rakoff, “but he was not so lost as to wish them dead, at least not by his own hand.”.
He was sentenced to a maximum of 20 years in prison on August 5, 2019, and will be eligible for parole as early as November 10, 2035.
Reports of previous threats. Ilya Somin , a libertarian-leaning law professor at George Mason University and a scholar at the Cato Institute, reported that he was the subject of death threats from Sayoc made on Facebook in April 2018.
Prosecutors from the SDNY said electronic devices owned by Sayoc had data showing that he began planning the attacks in July 2018. Sayoc was arraigned in Miami on October 29, 2018 and his court-assigned lawyer entered a plea of not guilty. Three days later, he was ordered to be transferred to New York for trial.