Cesar Sayoc born in 1962. DNA was found on one of the bomb devices.
Update: An arrest has been made in the investigation of bombs sent to prominent Democrats and critics of President Trump. The Department of Justice confirmed that one person was in custody.
A law enforcement source identified the suspect as a 56-year-old male, CBS News senior investigative producer Pat Milton reports. The source also said that DNA evidence on one of the devices played a part in leading investigators to the suspect.
Earlier, authorities recovered suspicious packages sent to Democratic Sen. Cory Booker and James Clapper, the director of national intelligence under President Obama. The packages appeared to be similar to 10 others sent this week.
The package sent to Booker was found in Florida, the FBI said on Twitter on Friday morning. Sources told CBS News that the package sent to Clapper was found at a postal facility in New York City.
The New York package was addressed to “James Robert Clapper Time Warner (CNN),” according to a photo of the package obtained by CBS New York station WCBS-TV. On Wednesday, a bomb sent to CNN’s offices in New York’s Time Warner Center prompted an evacuation of the building.
10/25/2018 A man has been arrested in connection with the mail pipe bomb plot involving more than 10 suspicious packages sent in the past week to people critical of President Donald Trump.
The Department of Justice confirmed Friday that a man in Florida has been arrested in connection with the terrorism.
No further information is known about the individual. DOJ officials are set to brief reporters this afternoon.
The development came hours after two additional packages were discovered, one addressed to Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.), and the other to former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper.
Authorities have heightened their search in Florida, as several of the packages may have passed through the state. The FBI said Friday that the package for Booker was found in a Florida mail facility.
Throughout the week, more than 10 packages containing potential explosive devices have been mailed to lawmakers and other public figures critical of Trump, including former President Barack Obama, former President Bill Clinton, Trump’s 2016 presidential opponent Hillary Clinton, Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), actor Robert De Niro and former CIA Director John Brennan.
The package addressed Brennan was sent to CNN’s New York City bureau, sparking an evacuation Wednesday. Brennan is an MSNBC and NBC contributor. On Friday, postal officials intercepted the package for Clapper, a CNN contributor, before it could reach the CNN offices, where it was addressed, according to the network.
All of the packages listed the Florida office of Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.), the former chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee, as the return address.
MAGA BOMBER
I just love on how our leader says that he isn’t responsible over the violence because of his words. He is wrong! He knows what he is doing. The idea is to throw a brick into a hornets nest and watch what happens. Our leader knows his words fire up the emotions of his followers. That is what he wants. He sees the violent actions of others after his speeches, then pleads innocence.
He threatened a woman via twitter who was interviewed on Fox a couple weeks ago. He claims to be a Seminole Indian.
https://twitter.com/RochelleRitchie/status/1055867631461416962
Hope all the Trump lovers out there are proud of themselves. Trump and the Republicans are the most vile corrupt SOB’s in this country, and yet FOX News and the party continue to manipulate and pander to the extreme gullibility and idiocy of its voting base. So much so we see stupid shit like this from morons and degenerates who lose all capacity for tolerance, respect for differing opinions, and are, in every sense of the word, enemies of freedom loving people everywhere and a significant threat overall to society as a whole.
Those who defend Trump to the ends of the earth are just as culpable as he is. He says to love Vladimir Putin, and instantly the very same people who wanted to wage war with Russia under Reagan and Bush suddenly think ol’ Vlad is the salt of the earth because Donald said he was.
What the goddamn hell is wrong with you people? Have you no minds of your own? (No.) Do you not understand the GOP is anti-freedom and promotes fascist ideologies to get as close to a dictatorship as possible to bypass Democrats and the rule of law? (No.) Do you not understand that others who disagree with you are equally entitled to their points of view under the Constitution, especially the 1st Amendment? (No.) Do you, finally, understand that you can’t force your Christian evangelicalism and attempts to create a theocracy on the nation? (No.)
Anybody who cheered this bastard on silently or publicly is a true enemy of the United States. We must start calling it what it is: domestic terrorism. Those who support these kinds of acts and the rights for demented killers to possess assault weaponry that make them more likely to commit mass murders are supporters of domestic terrorism.