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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,234 posts)
Sun Oct 28, 2018, 04:20 PM Oct 2018

How suspected mail bomber Cesar Sayoc got caught

Short of turning himself in, suspected mail bomber Cesar Altieri Sayoc Jr. could not have done more to get caught.

The clues that investigators followed to his gaudy white van in Plantation reveal that he either ignored or failed to consider all of the ways he was laying a trail for them.

He left a fingerprint on one of the packages he is accused of sending. His DNA was found on two of the bombs. By itself, that was enough to put feds on his trail, and everything else fell together quickly from there.

Here's how investigators were able to find their man - one person in a population of 327 million - in a scant five days after the pipe bombs began showing up.

The packages


The first suspected package turned up Monday, addressed to George Soros, a billionaire philanthropist who has supported Democrats. It was intercepted, but the number of packages grew on Tuesday. One to Barack Obama. One to Hillary Clinton. Another to former CIA Director John Brennan.

All targeted prominent Democrats, and all bore a return address to South Florida congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, former head of the Democratic National Committee and a frequent target of conservatives.

Immediately South Florida was at the center of the investigation.

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/how-suspected-mail-bomber-cesar-sayoc-got-caught/ar-BBOZ2UY?li=BBnb7Kz

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How suspected mail bomber Cesar Sayoc got caught (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 2018 OP
The stupidity of the average trump Cha Oct 2018 #1
You said it best! spanone Oct 2018 #3
Thanks, spanone.. Cha Oct 2018 #13
Stupid people don't know they're stupid. Doitnow Oct 2018 #9
Yeah, MAGABOMBER Cesar Sayoc thinking Cha Oct 2018 #14
and apparently many on the right are still insisting that Sayoc is a Democratic plant RussBLib Oct 2018 #2
Oh come on... Volaris Oct 2018 #19
He'll die in prison SHRED Oct 2018 #4
Democratic Party plant with power to see the future... sanatanadharma Oct 2018 #5
Woohoo for science. lark Oct 2018 #6
Stupid people don't know they're stupid. Doitnow Oct 2018 #10
Can't fix stupid. Racerdog1 Oct 2018 #7
I want to know where he put the bombs together. BigmanPigman Oct 2018 #8
That is the question isn't it? ProudLib72 Oct 2018 #11
I read on here yesterday that Cha Oct 2018 #15
If he managed to do it all by himself BigmanPigman Oct 2018 #17
K&R Puzzler Oct 2018 #12
And I'm tired of the rethug narrative that Sayoc/other white domestic terrorists are mentally ill iluvtennis Oct 2018 #16
There is nothing about Magahats that make me feel they are the sharpest saws in the shed. nt Blue_true Oct 2018 #18

Cha

(297,733 posts)
1. The stupidity of the average trump
Sun Oct 28, 2018, 04:40 PM
Oct 2018

supporter. Unless he was so smart he wanted to get caught so he laid out the breadcrumbs. Tried of living in his van and sending bombs to brilliant Democrats?

Idiot.. fingerprints and dna.


THE MAGABOMBER

RussBLib

(9,037 posts)
2. and apparently many on the right are still insisting that Sayoc is a Democratic plant
Sun Oct 28, 2018, 04:45 PM
Oct 2018

This inability to deal with reality is contagious and getting out of hand.

I suppose if he was a REAL conservative he would have never been caught, because they are all geniuses.

Volaris

(10,274 posts)
19. Oh come on...
Sun Oct 28, 2018, 09:16 PM
Oct 2018

You KNOW he's a democratic Patsy cause if he were an honest really real republican he's be white.

Seems are soooooo Stoopid ...

sanatanadharma

(3,736 posts)
5. Democratic Party plant with power to see the future...
Sun Oct 28, 2018, 05:14 PM
Oct 2018

...so he began his decent into deplorability in 2016, well before the general election, well before the republican selection of a yuuuuggge mistake.
We are so very prescient.
In reality, an odd man, prior perhaps, but not out of the range of socially tolerable, becomes totally radicalized in two years, solely by the trumpshit infection of a badly behaved mis-leader and his badly behaved, even deplorable, followers.



BigmanPigman

(51,636 posts)
8. I want to know where he put the bombs together.
Sun Oct 28, 2018, 06:02 PM
Oct 2018

That van would have a ton of DNA (his hair and skin) in it. Did he work alone? It seems almost impossible to do all of that in that little van while you are living in it.

ProudLib72

(17,984 posts)
11. That is the question isn't it?
Sun Oct 28, 2018, 06:07 PM
Oct 2018

He shut up about it. There could be a dozen others out there just like him.

BigmanPigman

(51,636 posts)
17. If he managed to do it all by himself
Sun Oct 28, 2018, 07:28 PM
Oct 2018

in a filthy, congested van with only three sources of fingerprints and DNA then he wasn't such a dummy after all. His former employer, who rode in his van once, described its interior....

iluvtennis

(19,876 posts)
16. And I'm tired of the rethug narrative that Sayoc/other white domestic terrorists are mentally ill
Sun Oct 28, 2018, 07:26 PM
Oct 2018

and therefore not accountable. I call BS.

Don't get me wrong some people do have mental health issues, but I'm tired of this lame excuse every time the perpetrator is a white guy.

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