Cesar Altier Sayoc, 56, was taken into custody on Friday morning in Plantation, Florida in connection with the 14 suspicious packages that have been discovered this week. He has other prior convictions on felony charges including grand theft and drug possession with intent to distribute, but has never served prison time. Perhaps an earlier ‘intervention’ in his troubled life would have prevented this.
Sayoc was tied to the bomb spree through a fingerprint. FBI Director Chris Wray said that investigators recovered DNA from two other packages, which they linked to a sample taken from Sayoc in one of his many prior arrests.
Sayoc was convicted of a threat to ‘throw, place, project or discharge any destructive device’ in 2002 in Dade County, Florida, after he threatened to blow up a utility company over a customer service complaint.