Bomb suspect: Ex-stripper with cash problems, Trump disciple
Published:Saturday | October 27, 2018 | 12:00 AM
WASHINGTON (AP):
Cesar Sayoc is an amateur body builder and former stripper, a loner with a long arrest record, who showed little interest in politics until Donald Trump came along.
Last Friday, he was identified by authorities as the Florida man who put pipe bombs in small manila envelopes, affixed six stamps and sent them to some of Trump's most prominent critics.
His arrest capped a week in which the bombs aimed at some of America's biggest names - Obama, Clinton, De Niro - dominated the news and invited speculation about who might be responsible for them.
DEVOTED TO TRUMP
The answer, authorities said, was Sayoc, a 56-year-old man from Aventura, Florida, who was devoted to Trump, had a history of financial problems and an extensive arrest record, including a stint on probation for making a bomb threat.
His attorney in that 2002 case, Ronald Lowy, described Sayoc as "a confused man who had trouble controlling his emotions".
Sayoc's social-media accounts are peppered with memes supporting Trump, and denigrating Democrats.