Apparently he’s Italian-Phillipino.
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-tru...ieri-nightclub-stripper-theft-battery-1190086
The cousin claimed that Sayoc had big dreams of becoming a pro wrestler, but that after doing too many steroids, his life went south.
“The kid was huge,” the cousin said. “He wanted to make it as a pro wrestler, but the steroids f***ed his head up.”
The cousin said Sayoc adopted the Italian surname “Altieri,” because while he was half-Filipino and half-Italian, he leaned toward his late grandfather's roots on his mother’s side.
Three years ago, the cousin said, Sayoc fell out of favor with the family.
“He was acting erratic all the time,” the cousin said. “We told him nicely, ‘Please don’t come around.’"
The issues centered on Sayoc making unannounced visits to his relatives’ home late at night.
Sayoc had plenty of run-ins with law enforcement, including numerous dings for alleged theft in the 1990s. In 2002, he allegedly threatened to use a bomb. Two years later, he got in trouble for alleged possession of synthetic anabolic androgenic steroids.