New York City terror suspect once ticketed in Iowa

The driver accused of a terrorist attack that killed eight people Tuesday afternoon in New York City was ticketed the year after arriving in the United States while driving a Freightliner semi-trailer truck on Interstate 80 in Iowa, records show.

Sayfullo Saipov, 29, was ticketed the morning of Dec. 4, 2011, while driving west on the interstate near Van Meter in Dallas County, according to court records. He was penalized $127.50 in fines and court costs for not keeping his log, required of commercial truck drivers, up to date. The record indicates he had been driving more hours than allowed in a 24-hour period.

Saipov was living in Fort Myers, Fla., at the time and had a Florida driver's license. The semi was registered in New Jersey, where he was reported to have once lived.

Authorities identified Saipov, a legal permanent resident of the United States who arrived in the country from Uzbekistan in 2010, as the man who drove a rented truck Tuesday down a Manhattan bike path. mowing down cyclists and pedestrians. We was shot by an officer and injured.

The suspect once planned to form his own trucking company, the Washington Post reported, but was most recently a driver for Uber. The ride-hailing service, which said Saipov had passed a background check, banned him after Tuesday's attack.