Fingerprints lead to alleged pipe bomber

Washington Times:

Federal officials said a fingerprint on one of the pipe bombs discovered this week led them to Cesar Altieri Sayoc, who they arrested in Florida on Friday and charged with mailing 13 improvised explosive devices to prominent critics of President Trump.

Mr. Sayoc, who has a long history of legal troubles including an earlier explosives-related charge in 2002, was found near his white van, which was plastered with pro-Trump, anti-Democrat and anti-CNN images.

Agents sniffed out Mr. Sayoc within a few days, teasing his fingerprint off a bomb intended for a congresswoman at her D.C. office. They matched both the fingerprint and DNA recovered from other packages to records from Mr. Sayoc’s previous run-ins with the law in Florida.

“We do believe that we’ve caught the right guy,” FBI Director Christopher Wray said in announcing the arrest at the Justice Department.

He said the devices they recovered had explosive material, clocks and batteries, and said they could have been detonated with the right circumstances of jostling or pressure. He said they were not “hoax” bombs, refuting internet speculation.Attorney General Jeff Sessions acknowledge Mr. Sayoc appeared to be a pro-Trump“partisan,” but declined to speculate beyond that on what his motives may have been.

“I don’t know, other than what you might normally suspect. He appears to be a partisan,” he said.

Mr. Wray said it’s too early to talk motives.
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Whatever his intentions it is good that he has been caught and will face justice.  If he did intend to harm his victims it is fortunate tht he was not very good in contructing his weapons.  It looks like the system worked in this case if this man was responsible for the devices.