NYC police arrest 27-year-old terror suspect
Mayor Bloomberg and other New York City officials held a news conference tonight to announce the arrest of a terror suspect. On Deadline live blogged the meeting at City Hall with reporters.
Updated at 8:02 p.m. ET:
Terror suspect Jose Pimentel, arrested by New York City police on Saturday, appeared to have been set off by the Sept. 30 death of al Qaeda leader Anwar al-Awlaki in Yemen by a U.S. drone strike, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly says.
Law enforcement had to act quickly to stop Pimentel because he was in the process of making a bomb device, Kelly says.
“He was drilling the holes and it would have been not appropriate to let him walk out the door with the bomb, so a decision was made to act quickly,” Kelly says.
On Saturday afternoon, New York City police officers arrested Jose Pimentel, 27, of Washington Heights in northern Manhattan, Mayor Bloomberg tells reporters.
Pimentel, an al Qaeda sympathizer, had planned to bomb police patrol cars and postal facilities and had a hostility toward U.S. armed services personnel returning from overseas, Bloomberg says.
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