'Very good news'! REPORT: Feds have arrested suspect in connection with suspicious packages; UPDATED [pics]

Editor’s note: Scroll down to the end of this post for the latest developments.

CNN is reporting that a man has been arrested in connection with the recent bomb scares:

BREAKING: Federal authorities have arrested a man in Florida in connection to the suspected explosive packages, according to multiple law enforcement sources.

— CNN’s Mark Morales, Evan Perez, Shimon Prokupecz, and Brynn Gingras report

— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) October 26, 2018

CNN's @evanperez is reporting on air that have arrested a man in connection with the packages containing suspected explosives.

— ?andrew?kaczynski? (@KFILE) October 26, 2018

Just in: Federal authorities arrest a man in connection with explosive devices. Tune in to CNN for the latest. @EvanPerez reporting on air right now.

— Ram Ramgopal (@RamCNN) October 26, 2018

We’re relieved if authorities have in fact caught the culprit, so we’ll refrain from any Florida Man jokes at this time (but only at this time). Let’s hope he’s the only person involved in this.

NICE!!! https://t.co/rPCbdhbF0q

— RBe (@RBPundit) October 26, 2018

Very good news. https://t.co/doTkvp1hDb

— David French (@DavidAFrench) October 26, 2018

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Update:

NBC News is reporting this as well:

DEVELOPING: A man has been taken into custody in Florida for questioning as part of the pipe bomb packages investigation, law enforcement sources tell @NBCNews – @PeteWilliamsNBC

— NBC News (@NBCNews) October 26, 2018

JUST IN: Suspect arrested in connection with package bomb investigation IDed as 56-year-old Cesar Sayoc, several law enforcement sources tell CBS News; he appears to have a criminal history in Broward County https://t.co/gsq71KV0gB pic.twitter.com/twc03EJD2i

— CBS Evening News (@CBSEveningNews) October 26, 2018

The person being named as the chief suspect in the #mailbombing campaign has a LONG criminal record going back nearly 30 years of various offenses including drug supply, domestic violence, fraud, grand theft.

— Tom Rogan (@TomRtweets) October 26, 2018

"Mail bomb" sender Cesar Sayoc priors:
91- Theft
94- Domestic Violence
03- Bomb threat
04- Illegal ID
04- Controlled substance
04- Evidence tampering
09- Foreclosure
09- operating w/out license
13- Theft
13- Battery
14- Theft
15- Probation violation
+many traffic & drug arrests

— Jordan Schachtel (@JordanSchachtel) October 26, 2018

Also Trump’s fault https://t.co/z6lr2peVdk

— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) October 26, 2018

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Update:

Some tweeters think they’ve identified the Twitter account belonging to the suspect. The material posted there certainly seems to line up with what we know about Sayoc but until we can confirm that it indeed belongs to him, we will not link to it here.

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Update:

Apparently Sayoc had worked as … a stripper?

Mail bomb suspect Cesar Sayoc was a "big muscle head" stripper, says former boss https://t.co/CByEyl0mdP

— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) October 26, 2018

More from the Washington Examiner:

Event promoter Tony Valentine said he hired Cesar Sayoc in the 1990s to strip on multiple occasions in Ohio, and that Sayoc traveled the country for similar appearances.

“He really couldn’t find his niche in life and I guess he found it now,” Valentine told the Washington Examiner. “Back in the ’90s he was running around from Minnesota to the Carolinas to Florida. He was like a gypsy.”

Valentine, who vouched for Sayoc in 2014 a grand theft court case, said Sayoc was “a big muscle head” who “wanted to be a professional wrestler — that was his dream.”

Welp.

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Update:

Seminole Tribe spox Gary Bitner: “There’s no record of him being a member of the Tribe. He’s not a member of the Seminole Tribe, has never been a member of the Seminole Tribe.“

Also, he likely did not work for the Tribe pic.twitter.com/Yfs74LqnDA

— Marc Caputo (@MarcACaputo) October 26, 2018