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struggle4progress

(118,294 posts)
Fri Oct 26, 2018, 04:40 PM Oct 2018

What we know about Cesar Sayoc

Ledyard King,Bill Theobald,Kevin McCoy and Ali Schmitz, USA TODAY
Published 12:48 p.m. ET Oct. 26, 2018 | Updated 4:14 p.m. ET Oct. 26, 2018

... Online records show that Sayoc has a string of arrest records that date back to 1991 for alleged theft and drug offenses, along with traffic infractions. As recently as May 2015, he was arrested in Palm Beach for an alleged retail theft. He was found guilty in October 2015, the records show.

In 2002, according to online court records from Miami-Dade County, Sayoc was charged with threatening to “throw, project, place, or discharge any destructive device.” The records don't detail the specific circumstances of the incident but a destructive device is described in the statute as a “bomb, grenade, mine, rock, missile, pipebomb or similar device.” Sayoc eventually was placed on one-year probation for the second-degree felony.

Sayoc also was arrested in February 2004 on four counts of possession and sale of steroids, according to Broward County Court records. The charges were all dismissed in August 2005 after he had been sentenced to an 18-month probation on two counts of possession and unlawful use of a driver’s license ...

Sayoc also lost his Fort Lauderdale home in a foreclosure in September 2009, according to court records. He filed for bankruptcy protection in June 2012. The court records in that case state he had just $4,175 in assets, including a 2001 Chevy Tahoe with 285,000 miles, and $21,109 in liabilities ...

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/10/26/who-cesar-sayoc-florida-man-arrested-bomb-like-devices/1774140002/

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What we know about Cesar Sayoc (Original Post) struggle4progress Oct 2018 OP
Male strippers, body building and trolling struggle4progress Oct 2018 #1
A felonious registered Republican in Florida? Louis1895 Oct 2018 #2
Perhaps he was part of that cluster of White Republican felons that Rick Scott gave voting rights to TheBlackAdder Oct 2018 #4
but my right-wing acquaintance told me he was a democrat at one time and had worked at CNN Beaverhausen Oct 2018 #3

struggle4progress

(118,294 posts)
1. Male strippers, body building and trolling
Fri Oct 26, 2018, 04:44 PM
Oct 2018

By Sanya Burgess, news reporter

... At least one of his Facebook accounts paint a picture of a man who wanted to seen as stereotypically masculine as could be, while his Twitter shows someone who spent hours sharing pro-Republican and anti-Democrat images and messages ...

His LinkedIn says he is a promoter. booking agent, owner and choreographer of a number of enterprises, including Chippendales male strippers.

Another photo shows a large advert for unofficial 'Real Magic Mike' experiences, complete with images of naked male torsos and flaming guitars, attached to the van US authorities towed away as part of their investigation ...

In another post, he calls David Hoggs, one of the students who survived the Stoneman Douglas high school shooting in Parkland, Florida, a "fake phony" and accuses him of never attending the school and of being an actor paid by George Soros ...

https://news.sky.com/story/male-strippers-body-building-and-trolling-who-is-bomb-suspect-cesar-sayoc-11536562

Louis1895

(768 posts)
2. A felonious registered Republican in Florida?
Fri Oct 26, 2018, 04:49 PM
Oct 2018

I thought you could not vote in Florida if you were a convicted felon.

Someone help me out here, please.

Beaverhausen

(24,470 posts)
3. but my right-wing acquaintance told me he was a democrat at one time and had worked at CNN
Fri Oct 26, 2018, 04:50 PM
Oct 2018

that's all true, right?

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