An attorney for Sayoc did not immediately respond to a message seeking comment.

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Authorities have said they think Sayoc is responsible for mailing 16 possible explosive devices to people considered foes of President Trump, including former president Barack Obama, former secretary of state Hillary Clinton, former attorney general Eric H. Holder Jr., liberal billionaire George Soros and others. Sayoc was arrested last month and charged with five counts. Even after he was in taken into custody, authorities continued to recover packages they think he sent through the mail.

None of the devices exploded. FBI Director Christopher A. Wray has said they were not hoaxes.

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Family members and associates of Sayoc’s have said he was a troubled man who struggled with mental-health problems and lied as he sought to find an identity with which he was comfortable. He worked in strip clubs, dabbled in bodybuilding and had frequent run-ins with the law, including a 2002 incident in which he threatened to blow up a Florida utility company.

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As far back as 2015, he took an interest in Trump — attending campaign events and posting on social media his support for the then-presidential candidate. ­Sayoc covered the van he lived in with pro-Trump stickers and decals of the president’s opponents with crosshairs over their faces.

Prosecutors have alleged previously that Sayoc began planning to send the possible bombs — composed of six inches of PVC pipe, a small clock, a battery, wiring and what authorities termed “energetic,” or possibly explosive, material — as far back as July. The Internet search history on his phone showed he searched “hilary Clinton hime [sic] address” on July 15 and “address Debbie wauserman Shultz” on July 26.

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Each of the packages listed Shultz — a likely misspelling of Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) — in the return address. Sayoc searched throughout September and October for the addresses of others — including Obama, Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.), Sen. Kamala D. Harris (D-Calif.) and major Democratic donor Tom Steyer, prosecutors have said.