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Cesar Sayoc attended a Donald Trump rally. |
THE FLORIDA MAN arrested and charged on Friday in connection with the wave of improvised explosive devices mailed this week to prominent Democrats and critics of Donald Trump, tried to pass himself off as a member of the Seminole Nation.
Cesar Altieri Sayoc's mixed heritage was actually Filipino and Italian.
Sayoc, a registered Republican, has lived in South Florida for decades, according to court documents, property records and other documents. On social media he posted several verbal attacks against critics of Trump.
According to the Miami Herald, he was born in Brooklyn in 1962, the son of a Filipino immigrant, and attended North Miami Beach High School, according to information from ancestry.com, the genealogy company that tests the DNA of customers to reveal ancestral roots. His mother, Madeline Sayoc Altieri, of Italian descent, was born in Brooklyn.
An immigration naturalization certificate for a Ceasar Sayoc of North Miami Beach, believed to be the father of Cesar Sayoc, shows the elder Sayoc was naturalized in March 1970.
The Miami Herald also found on ancestry.com, a genealogy company, that the elder Ceasar Sayoc, who was born in 1932, immigrated from the Philippines. He died in 2009.
The younger Sayoc, 56, of Aventura, was arrested Friday (Oct. 26) for allegedly mailing pipe bombs to at least 13 prominent Democrats.
“This was someone lost,“ attorney Ron Lowy told Anderson Cooper on CNN Friday.
He told Cooper that Sayoc was “abandoned by his father” and was desperately seeking an identity. He “was looking for anything and he found a father in Trump,” said Lowy. Sayoc had never been politically active until Trump’s campaign for the presidency, said Lowy, who represented Sayoc in the past on various criminal charges.
It’s “my opinion that he was attracted to the Trump formula of reaching out, Trump reaching out to these types of outsiders, people who don’t fit in, people who are angry at America, telling them they have a place at the table, telling them that it’s okay to get angry,” Lowy said on CNN. “I believe that was a motivating factor.”
It appears that Sayoc lived in a fantasy world and most of what he claimed in Linkedin, Facebook and other social media sites were most likely fabrications. He inferred on his social media pages that he was a member of the Sseminoles, a Native American tribe based in Florida. The tribe said they have no records on Sayoc.
The FBI visited a condominium complex Friday and learned that Sayoc’s mother in a hospital bed after having surgery, The family's lawyer told WSVN-TV, that the suspect is “mentally ill and insecure.”
The younger Sayoc, 56, of Aventura, was arrested Friday (Oct. 26) for allegedly mailing pipe bombs to at least 13 prominent Democrats.
“This was someone lost,“ attorney Ron Lowy told Anderson Cooper on CNN Friday.
He told Cooper that Sayoc was “abandoned by his father” and was desperately seeking an identity. He “was looking for anything and he found a father in Trump,” said Lowy. Sayoc had never been politically active until Trump’s campaign for the presidency, said Lowy, who represented Sayoc in the past on various criminal charges.
It’s “my opinion that he was attracted to the Trump formula of reaching out, Trump reaching out to these types of outsiders, people who don’t fit in, people who are angry at America, telling them they have a place at the table, telling them that it’s okay to get angry,” Lowy said on CNN. “I believe that was a motivating factor.”
It appears that Sayoc lived in a fantasy world and most of what he claimed in Linkedin, Facebook and other social media sites were most likely fabrications. He inferred on his social media pages that he was a member of the Sseminoles, a Native American tribe based in Florida. The tribe said they have no records on Sayoc.
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A cousin, who wished to remain anonymous, told NBC that Sayoc worked as a dancer and bouncer at strip clubs, telling the network, “He’s always been a little bit of a loose cannon. He’s always been a lost soul. Too many steroids in his day. That stuff will melt your brain.”
On Sayoc's LinkedIn page, he says that his grandfather, Col. Baltazar Zook Sayoc, was a martial arts practitioner who developed his own style of fighting, Sayoc Kali. Sayoc says that style was used to fight the Communist Party of the Philippines. Here is a detailed website about the fighting style. (The Kali Sayoc school, in New York, has issued a statement saying that it has no knowledge of Cesar Sayoc and that it condemns any actions that threaten the democratic process.)
He also claims to have a BA in economics from the University of North Carolina, Charlotte, and aspires to be a "horse doctor."
Highpoint University, where Sayoc claimed to be attending to earn a degree in veterinary medicine.
On his Twitter page Sayoc cliams 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.
Sayoc has a long record dating back to 1991 of brushes with the law. In 2002, he was arrested for threatening to bomb a Florida power company. For that threat, he received a year's probation.
So he had his fingerprints on file and that led to his arrest when a fingerprint was found on one of bomb packages he had sent out.
Sayoc faces five charges, according to the Department of Justice complaint: interstate transportation of an explosive, illegal mailing of explosives, threats against former presidents and certain other persons, threatening interstate communications, and assaulting federal officers. If he is found guilty of all the charges, Sayoc could face up to 48 years in prison.
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