Officials have not established a link between the New Orleans truck attack and an exploded Cybertruck outside a Trump-owned hotel in Las Vegas

Shamsud-Din Jabbar, the 42-year-old US citizen from Texas identified by the FBI as the New Orleans attacker, previously pleaded guilty to two charges, including driving under the influence in 2015, reports CNN.

According to documents from a US district court in North Carolina obtained by CNN, Jabbar had driven under the influence of an impairing substance in November 2014 and recorded a blood alcohol level over the legal limit. CNN reports that documents also showed Jabbar was driving with “an open container of alcoholic beverage after he consumed alcohol”.

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