Man detained in Florida in mail-bomb case
Published:Friday | October 26, 2018 | 12:42 PM
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal authorities took a Florida man into custody Friday in connection with the mail-bomb scare that earlier widened to 12 suspicious packages sent to prominent Democrats from coast to coast.
President Donald Trump promised the man would be prosecuted to the “fullest extent of the law.”
The man was identified by law enforcement officials as Cesar Sayoc, 56, of Aventura, Florida.
He was arrested at an auto parts store in the nearby city of Plantation.
Court records show Sayoc has a history of arrests for theft, illegal possession of steroids and a 2002 charge of making a bomb threat.
It was not immediately clear whether Sayoc had been formally charged in the current case.
Law enforcement officers were seen on television examining a white van, its windows covered with an assortment of stickers, outside the Plantation auto parts store.
Authorities covered the vehicle with a blue tarp and took it away on the back of a flatbed truck.
The stickers included images of Trump, American flags and what appeared to be logos of the Republican National Committee and CNN, though the writing surrounding those images was unclear.
The development came amid a nationwide manhunt for the person responsible for a series of explosive devices addressed to prominent Democrats including former President Barack Obama, former Vice President Joe Biden, and Hillary Clinton.
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