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Something that he drives or in connection to this, the one live on the screen right now, and we will continue to get some more information as to what he is charged with. We should be hopefully getting that in the next hour or so. All right. Our justice correspondent pete William S Williams is also reporting that dna evidence played a role in his arrest. I am going to step aside and Andrea Mitchell reports starts now. Thank you, craig. Im Andrea Mitchell in washington, and breaking news with the 12 packages containing explosive devices. And we are told that florida resident Cesar Sayoc Jr. Has been arrested in a string of mailed bombs. We will have a Press Conference at 2 30 with more details. And to tod ....
List is two former presidents, and democratic officials, and democratic law officials and a leading democratic donor. and now, joining me is kerry sanders and msnbc national analyst clint watt, a fbi agent, and geoff bennett, and investigations reporter tom winter. tom tom, let s start with you. andrea, the reporting from my colleag colleagues jonathan dienst and pete williamss who is on the way to the justice department now is that cesar sayoc jr. is the person taken into the cust dichlt he is 56 years old and from florida and he lived in new york at some point, and trying to get some clarify if it is new york city or new york state, but either way, cesar sayoc jr. is taken into custody, and charged in connection with the bombing probe that we have been talking about in the last several days, ....
Been arrested in connection with the bombing probe that we have been talking about for the last few days. and there is to be a press conference this afternoon led by the joint terrorism task force, and in connection with the nypd, and you can see him as officer or detective there as part of it and the fbi and nbc news reported that the officials were circling florida as a location of where the package may have been sent. several hours ago around 10:00 a.m., myself and my colleagues here, pete williams and i started to get an indication that there had been or there was somebody that they were strongly considering and strongly eyeing in connection with this bombing, and at that time, the person was described as a male in his 50s and now we have more detail on who that person is, and in fact, that person has been take then into to custody. andrea. and we don t know if this is ....
That are on the side of this, it appears that the clint, sorry, but i am sorry we have a name here. and tom winter, what can you tell us? craig, our understanding is that a person named see cyock jr. who lives in new york area and previously known to law enforcement. he had some run-ins with the law enforcement in the past, and he has been arrested in connection with this bomb probe. he is believed to be 56 years old and we had mentioned that earlier, and so, that reporting from my colleague pete williams and jonathan dienst, and again, repeating ceasar cyock jr., current cannily living in florida has been r arreeen arre connection to the bombing probe, and we know that we have a press conference at 2:30, a and little confusion as to whether or not a ....