Suspected magabomber Cesar Altier Sayoc was a ‘white supremacist’ who believed America was ‘going down the toilet’ and blamed the Democrats and Barack Obama for society’s problems.
Sayoc, 56, was taken into custody on Friday morning in Plantation, Florida and he faces 48 years in prison for mailing 14 pipe bombs to liberal elite including Hillary, Obama, CNN, Joe Biden and George Soros. More details emerged about the former male stripper’s chequered history last night, including his criminal past which started nearly 30 years ago and includes arrests in 2002 for threatening to ‘blow up’ Florida Power and Light and an arrest in 1991 for grand theft auto. But more disturbingly, Sayoc’s former boss at a pizza restaurant told how he openly admitted being a ‘white supremacist’ who was anti-gay, anti-Jewish and ‘wanted to purify society’. Debra Gureghian said Sayoc worked as a delivery driver at New River Pizza & Fresh Kitchen in Fort Lauderdale for more than a year before quit in January. Gureghian said he told her that because she is a lesbian she is 'deformed' and that she should be 'put on an island with all the other gay people and burned.' She told CNN tonight: ‘I knew he had issues.
He really was not, he definitely beat to the beat of his own drum. ‘He was anti-gay, anti-black, anti-Jewish, you name it, everybody that really wasn’t white and wasn’t a white supremacist didn’t belong in the world, that’s what he used to say to me all the time. He used the same white van that was prominently featured in national news broadcasts and splashed on news sites on Friday to deliver pizzas, she said. The van was adorned with 'a billion stickers,' she said. She said at times there were KKK stickers and at least one sticker with a bullseye over a photo of Hillary Clinton on the vehicle. Sayoc, she said 'loved Adolph Hitler'. She revealed: 'If you didn’t fit his profile, you should go to an island and the island should be obliterated,' said Gureghian, who worked in a civilian role for the Massachusetts State Police for 23 years before moving to Florida. She claimed Sayoc identified as a white supremacist who told her that 'anyone who wasn't white didn't belong in the world'. ‘Yes, he called himself a white supremacist and he called himself a Nazi supporter,' Gurighian replied. She added: 'He said that the people that he labeled were very weak and that he would — that he wanted to purify society. ‘So, in order to do that, he would have to get rid of the gays and the lesbians and the transgenders and the blacks and the Jews and whoever else didn’t follow his suit, whoever else didn’t follow his policy and political views'.
His former lawyer, Ronald S. Lowy, said for years he had shown 'a lack of comprehension of reality' But federal authorities said the 14 pipe bombs Sayoc, of Aventura, Florida, allegedly sent through the US mail are real, and were a danger to the people he mailed them to in recent days. He told investigators after he was arrested in Plantation that the pipe bombs wouldn't have hurt anyone, and that he didn't want to hurt anyone, according to a law enforcement official. Sayoc was being held Friday night at a federal detention center in Miami. It appeared that he had been living in the white Dodge van where he was found and arrested Friday morning, the law enforcement official said tonight. According to Sayoc’s Facebook page, he is a diehard Trump supporter and has photos and videos of himself at one of the President’s rallies in October 2016. He had been using social media to promote wild conspiracy theories targeting the Clintons, former President Barack Obama and Muslims. And today an associate described how Sayoc faulted the Democrats and Barack Obama for 'American culture going down the toilet'. Sergio Menezes, who had a long conversation with Sayoc in his neighborhood as recently as August, claimed he was angry about ‘losing real estate ground’ to foreigners moving to Miami and displacing him towards the Everglades. Speaking exclusively to DailyMail.com from Florida, he said Sayoc wasn’t happy that students stopped saying the pledge of allegiance and that immigrants weren’t learning English. ‘He said he lived near the beach for years, but because rich foreigners were buying up everything, he was having to keep moving west, in less valuable areas, because he couldn’t afford living here,' Menezes said. ‘I was born in Brazil, so I was interested in what he had to say since he sorta was talking about people like me'. Sayoc, says Menezes, faulted the Democrats for that situation.
He said the culprits were Democrats in general, and (Pres. Barack) Obama in particular,’ Menezes said. ‘He said Democrats were allowing this to happen. He was very negative towards the Democrats, and went on and on about that’. Menezes said Sayoc was tired also of watching American culture 'going down the toilet'. ‘He said he wasn’t happy that people stopped saying the pledge of allegiance in school, that immigrants weren’t learning English. The funny thing, Menezes said, is that he felt bad for the man. ‘I’m more left of center, but I felt for him. He looked like one of these older guys that nobody can relate to, that people would pass by without noticing. He looked out of place. ‘I understand where he was coming from. I told him the world is changing, but he had a hard time accepting that’. Menezes said he didn’t see the van at the LA Fitness parking lot again. ‘He was angry but logical enough,' Menezes said. 'I’d never have thought he’d do something like this’. Sayoc was also prolific on his two Facebook accounts and three Twitter feeds. One picture from a video clearly shows the suspect with Trump in the background speaking on stage at what appears to be a campaign rally in 2016. Another appears to have been taken at Trump's inauguration. In other posts, Sayoc shared several conspiracy theories, memes and articles slamming Hillary Clinton, who ran against Trump. He also posted virulently anti-Muslim memes and published the address of George Soros and photos of the homes of some of the people who later received bombs in the mail. He also has a past marked by encounters with law enforcement. He had been arrested nine times before Friday, mostly in Florida. Notable among them was a 2002 arrest when Sayoc threatened to bomb the Florida Power and Light Co., Miami police alleged and said that 'it would be worse than September 11th'.
‘The defendant contacted a rep (from) Florida Power and Light Co by telephone and threatened to blow up FPL,' a Miami Police Department report about the incident reads Sayoc had worked as a DJ at Ultra Gentleman's Club in West Palm Beach, the same strip club where Trump accuser Stormy Daniels performed in April. WPTV spoke to Ultra manager Stacey Saccal who confirmed that Sayoc worked as a DJ Thursday afternoon, the day before he was arrested in Plantation. She said Sayoc had worked there for two months as a DJ and doorman. Saccal said there had been no complaints about Sayoc from other employees prior to his arrest Friday. She said that they are in 'shock and disbelief' after learning about the arrest and described him as a 'nice guy.' 'I never knew that his van was covered in political stickers. I thought it was an ice cream truck," Saccal said, noting that he parked far from the club. Scott Meigs, a co-worker of 20 years and fellow DJ, said on Sayoc's last day on the job he brought in two duffel bags and a cooler. When asked if he thought there were weapons in the bags Meigs said he doesn't know but added that Sayoc kept them behind the DJ booth. Meigs characterized Sayoc as an extremely nice guy who volunteered to work for him so he could take his son to Fright Nights at the South Florida Fairgrounds. A new report published tonight described how Sayoc was 'fitness-obbsessed' and dreamt of becoming a male stripper. He apparently raveled to jiggle joints across the country during the 1990s, Ohio event promoter Tony Valentine told the Washington Examiner. Valentine said the 56-year-old was a 'big muscle head' who 'wanted to be a professional wrestler — that was his dream'. 'He really couldn’t find his niche in life, and I guess he found it now,' Valentine told the Examiner.
'Back in the nineties, he was running around from Minnesota to the Carolinas to Florida. He was like a gypsy'. 'He would show up and do an individual act and leave, he added. He was dancing for a guy out in Oklahoma, too'. Valentine vouched for Sayoc in his grand theft auto case in 2014 when Sayoc was employed as a strip club manager while also dancing at the all-male strip club. Valentine said he wouldn’t hire the Aventura, Florida, resident again. 'He’s like 900 years old now, he said. I wouldn’t hire a 50- or 60-year-old stripper'. Sayoc’s cousin told NBC News that he worked as an exotic dancer and a bouncer at many strip clubs. He was a 'loose cannon' and a 'lost soul' who didn’t speak to his family and had a problem with steroids, the unidentified cousin, who lives in Florida, said. 'He’s been in the strip clubs since he was 22, that was his life,' the cousin said. 'He was a male dancer and he wanted to be a wrestler. He was taking steroids. He was all buffed up…. He was built like a rock'. Sayoc seemed proud of his body. In 2010, he posted a photo collage on Facebook showing himself shirtless and flexing his muscles. 'If birds didn't fly south for the winter and sun didn't rise in the east would tomorrow come,' he bizarrely commented on the photo. Court records show that Sayoc filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy in 2012. The filing said he 'lives with his mother' in Aventura and had been working for a year as a 'store manager' of an investment company in Hollywood, Florida. However childhood friends of Cesar Altier Sayoc painted a different picture of his character, saying he was a well-liked, softly-spoken child who never got into trouble. David Templer, who remembered him from school, told DailyMail.com:
'I don't think you will find anyone that knew him back in the day who will suggest this was expected. 'Cesar was not weird or off in any way that I recall. He and his sister we're both nice and well-liked. But, like I said, things can change in 40 years... assuming the Feds got it right.' A former classmate, who asked not to be named, added: 'All I can tell you is he was a nice boy and I played soccer with I'm in high school. 'He never was in trouble when we were in high school he was a good kid. He had a younger sister Sabrina. 'Very surprised all of my classmates are in shock!! Nice family, he was a quiet kid but had a lot of friends.' Sheri Holtzman Tapia wrote on Facebook: 'I remember him being nice and kind of quiet.' Jamie Grapin Rubenstein added: 'Super nice guy played soccer.' And Stuart Collins agreed, writing: 'I'm shocked too. Really soft spoken nice guy. wtf happened?' 'He was a nice kid, very quiet,' Cindy Krantz Grafman added. 'I cannot believe it!' Sayoc graduated 1980 from North Miami Beach Senior High, according to a yearbook entry. His grandmother lived in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, according to a 2006 obituary.
Corporate records show Sayoc has owned companies called Native American Catering & Vending, as well as Proud Native America One Low Price Drycleaning. The suspect was arrested in front of an AutoZone store in Plantation, a police source tells DailyMail.com. Michelle Taylor, a nurse at the Senior Medical Associates clinic across the street from the AutoZone, saw police taking a vehicle believed to be Sayoc's into custody. 'We've been in the office for an hour and we're so nervous,' she said. 'The police were surrounding some kind of a van. Thank god we're done with our patients for the day and there's only two of us in here.'
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