美特勤局截获寄给奥巴马和希拉里·克林顿的可疑包裹

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美国可疑包裹寄件人落网 至多面临48年监禁
2018-10-28 07:14:07 来源： 新华网

　　美国执法人员26日在佛罗里达州逮捕一名56岁白人男子，指认他寄出10多个含有疑似爆炸装置的包裹。

　　现有信息显示，这名男子是共和党籍总统唐纳德·特朗普的支持者，包裹收件人是民主党要员或亲近民主党人士。

　　【指纹·拼写】

　　美国司法部长杰夫·塞申斯在一场记者会说，男子名为西泽·萨约克，住迈阿密－戴德县，受到5项重罪指控；如果全部罪名成立，他面临至多48年监禁。

　　执法人员在一家汽车用品商店附近抓获萨约克，拖走他充作住所的一辆白色厢式货车。

　　萨约克有多项犯罪记录，包括炸弹威胁和偷窃。

　　他的指纹与一个可疑包裹上所留指纹一致；他在社交媒体发布的言论含有英文拼写错误，与包裹上所含拼写错误一致。

　　22日至26日，全美多地出现至少13个可疑包裹，内含制作粗糙的管状炸弹，收件人包括投资家乔治·索罗斯、前国务卿希拉里·克林顿和前总统贝拉克·奥巴马。没有包裹爆炸，没有人受伤。

　　美联社26日报道，一些炸弹专家判断，包裹内容并非传统爆炸装置，即收件人打开包裹、炸弹立即爆炸；寄件人似乎有意制造恐慌，而非人身伤害。

　　美国有线电视新闻网(CNN)以多名消息人士为来源报道，萨约克落网后告诉执法人员，炸弹不会伤人，他不希望有人受伤。媒体报道的这种说法没有得到执法机构证实。

　　【政治·疯子】

　　司法部长塞申斯说不清楚萨约克所作所为是否有政治动机，同时认定萨约克是“忠实党员”。美联社解读，塞申斯暗示，政治或许是触发可疑包裹事件的动因之一。

　　萨约克在纽约出生，2016年3月首次在佛罗里达州注册为共和党人，是特朗普的活跃支持者。他多次在社交媒体发布图片和视频，显示自己参加特朗普出席的政治集会，称特朗普为“最棒的总统”。

　　另外，他经常在社交媒体“跟风”特朗普，把一些主流媒体机构斥责为“假新闻”来源，如美国有线电视新闻网。

　　美国有线电视新闻网纽约办事处收到一件可疑包裹。

　　多家媒体报道，萨约克2012年个人财务破产，继而常年厕身那辆白色厢式货车，不时去健身房和海滩边的公共淋浴室洗澡。白色货车上贴有支持特朗普的标语以及“CNN真烂”之类的贴纸。

　　他的亲戚伦尼·阿尔铁里告诉一名美联社记者，萨约克的精神状况不稳定，平时“不合群”，是“疯子”。

　　2002年，他打电话威胁当地分管公用事业的官员，说要炸掉那些人的办公室，缘由是对他所居住处所的供电将停止。

　　【“极化”·暴力】

　　萨约克被捕后，特朗普在白宫告诉媒体记者，可疑包裹“让人惊恐”，“我们决不允许政治暴力在美国扎根”。同时，他再次呼吁，民众“必须团结”。

　　过去几天，特朗普多次呼吁“团结”，民主党人和他的反对者不买账，认定这类言论“虚伪”。

　　多家媒体报道，萨约克“特朗普支持者”的身份触发争论。特朗普的批评者认定，总统攻击民主党和媒体的言论对政治暴力有推波助澜作用；他的支持者则反驳，不应就可疑包裹事件怪罪总统。

　　就批评者的指责，特朗普为自己打抱不平，再次将矛头对准媒体：“我一直受到攻击……我可以为我们国家做最棒的事情，（我的形象）在新闻网和其他（媒体）上却展现得那么糟糕。”

　　他在一场政治集会上说这些话时，一名支持者大喊“假新闻”。

　　媒体报道，随着美国政坛以至社会加剧“极化”，即保守派倾向于更保守、自由派倾向于更自由，可疑包裹事件正在加剧11月6日国会中期选举投票日以前的紧张氛围。

　　联邦调查局局长克里斯托弗·雷26日在记者会上说，执法人员正在追踪是否有更多可疑包裹以及是否有其他个人或团体寄出包裹。

 

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(CNN) DNA, fingerprints and pings from a cell phone tower led authorities to an auto parts store parking lot in south Florida where they arrested a 56-year-old man Friday morning. The arrest brought an end to a four-day nationwide manhunt for the alleged mailer of over a dozen suspected pipe bombs to prominent critics of President Donald Trump.

A key break in the case for investigators came Thursday, according to a criminal complaint and multiple law enforcement officials, when they traced five packages to the Opa-Locka processing and distribution center outside of Miami.

That break allowed authorities to narrow their search, which -- combined with DNA and fingerprint samples left on a package sent to Rep. Maxine Waters and cell phone geolocation information -- led to Cesar Sayoc, even as new devices were being found in New York and California.

FBI agents arrested Sayoc at an AutoZone parking lot in Plantation, Florida, about six miles west of Fort Lauderdale, Friday morning as he was nearing his white van, which has been covered with images political in nature, including images of notable liberals such as Hillary Clinton and former President Barack Obama.

A "CNN Sucks" sticker was also on the van. Two of the packages with explosive devices were addressed to the CNN New York bureau.

Other targets include former Vice President Joe Biden, and critics of Donald Trump including Waters, actor-director Robert De Niro, and Sens. Cory Booker and Kamala Harris. A suspicious package similar to the others this week was also found Friday in the San Francisco Bay area addressed to Democratic billionaire donor Tom Steyer.

Friday's arrest was the culmination of a multi-agency federal, state and local law enforcement and civilian effort that began Monday when the first suspected pipe bomb sent to George Soros, a billionaire philanthropist who has supported Democrats, was intercepted.

Three new suspected bombs were detected Friday morning in Florida, New York and California as agents in South Florida were preparing to apprehend Sayoc at the parking lot. The packages were nearly identical -- six inch PVC pipes with wires, stuffed inside a bubble-wrap lined manila envelope, according to the complaint. Six American flag stamps were affixed to each envelope with the return address of Florida Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz's office.

"These are not hoax devices," FBI Director Christopher Wray said at a news conference Friday.

Sayoc was charged with five criminal counts related to 13 explosive devices, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced Friday. He faces up to 48 years in prison if convicted.

The investigation, led by the FBI with the involvement of the Joint Terrorism Task Force of the NYPD, the US Postal Inspectors and other federal agencies and local law enforcement, depended heavily on the quick work of private security and US Postal Workers who detected bombs as they arrived at office buildings and post offices.

Authorities were also aided by mistakes made by the alleged bomber who left traces of evidence investigators scrambled to understand.

As explosive devices were sent to the FBI forensics lab in Quantico, investigators there detected DNA and a fingerprint found on the device intended for Waters and, working with local law enforcement, matched it late Thursday night to a sample of Sayoc's DNA that had been previously collected, Wray said.

Traces of DNA collected from two other of the bombs appeared related to Sayoc, according to the complaint filed in federal court Friday.

With his possible identity known, investigators checked his cell phone number against cell phone towers in the vicinity to see if they matched the location and timing for when the packages originated, according to a law enforcement official.

By Thursday night, agents and law enforcement officers, confident they had found the alleged bomber, were combing through social media posts of Sayoc and began surveilling him either Thursday night or Friday morning, the law enforcement official said.
Clues appeared to confirm their suspicions. Sayoc misspelled words on posts that matched some of those on the packages. Some posts said, "Hilary" instead of "Hillary" Clinton, while another said "Shultz" instead of Schultz for Debbie Wasserman Schultz.

Investigators first went to the home of Sayoc's mother in Aventura, but were told he wasn't there, according to a law enforcement official. As of Friday afternoon, authorities were searching his mother's residential complex.

Meanwhile, they detected a ping identifying Sayoc's cell phone. In the AutoZone parking lot, agents found the white van, where he appeared to be living.

Sayoc was initially somewhat cooperative, one official said. He told investigators that the pipe bombs wouldn't have hurt anyone and that he didn't want to hurt anyone. But he has since retained a lawyer so questioning has ceased. He is scheduled to appear in federal court on Monday in Florida.

Although Sayoc is in custody, FBI director Wray cautioned that there could be more potential explosive devices sent that have yet to be detected.

"Today's arrest does not mean we are all out of the woods," Wray told reporters. "There may be more packages in transit now."

 

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. 27, 2018 / 6:15 PM EDT
By Jonathan Dienst and Dennis Romero

Multiple senior law enforcement officials briefed on the investigation into the pipe bombs allegedly built by Cesar Sayoc tell NBC News they believe the devices were constructed in his van.

As NBC News reported Friday, the Florida man lived in his vehicle — it appears to be a 1990s Dodge Ram Van — which was covered in pro-Trump images and right-wing propaganda.



Law enforcement officials continue to believe that Sayoc, 56, acted alone, but the investigation is ongoing. On Friday, the FBI said they had him in custody.

The van federal agents are investigating in connection with package bombs that were sent to high-profile critics of President Donald Trump is transported on a flatbed tow truck on Friday, Oct. 26, 2018 in Miramar, Florida.Carline Jean / South Florida Sun-Sentinel via AP
Sayoc is accused of sending 14 bombs through the U.S. Mail to former President Barack Obama, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, ex-Vice President Biden, Democratic Party backer George Soros, actor Robert De Niro and others.

Most of the targets, including CNN, are also frequent targets of presidential tongue lashings on twitter and at political rallies.

Committee to Protect Journalists deputy executive director Robert Mahoney called on Trump to tone down his criticism.

"Journalists across the country feel unsafe because of the constant hostility and belittling of their role in our democracy by the head of state," he said in a statement. "It needs to stop."

The packages turned up between Monday and Friday in New York, California and Washington. A fingerprint from a package sent to U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) led authorities to Sayoc, FBI Director Christopher Wray said at a press conference on Friday.

Multiple senior law enforcement sources told NBC News that Sayoc denies being behind the package bomb campaign.

Sayoc, described by relative as a former strip club dancer and bouncer, has a record of past run-ins with the law, including over issues such as domestic violence, possession of steroids, battery and theft, according to court documents.

Sayoc faces multiple federal allegations, including making "threats against former presidents," in connection with the package bomb campaign. If convicted, the counts could bring 48 years behind bars.

Sayoc's first appearance in federal court was scheduled for Monday in Miami.

 

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