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Who Is Cesar Sayoc? Bomb Suspect Has Criminal History, Attacked Democrats Online

The Florida man charged on Friday ran afoul of the law for decades and was arrested for a slew of crimes, including larceny, drug possession and making a bomb threat.
An undated police mugshot of Cesar Sayoc, who was charged Friday with sending explosive devices to critics of President Trump.

Updated at 7:40 p.m. ET

Cesar Altieri Sayoc, 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 President Trump, has a long criminal history, including a charge of making a bomb threat.

The felony bomb threat charges arose from a dispute Sayoc had with a power company when he ran a laundromat business in 2002, Ron Lowy, Sayoc's former attorney, told NPR's Martin Kaste.

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