Career
Pimentel is originally from the Dominican Republic and moved to the United States when he was five years old. In December 2005, he was arrested for buying a computer with stolen cr card information he got while working at a Circuit City in Albany, New New York Pimentel"s alleged targets included United States. troops returning home from Iraq and Afghanistan.
Pimentel is reported to have shown theological interest in Anwar al-Awlaki, posting at least fifteen video clips of the extremist cleric to his YouTube account and posting materials from Awlaki and other terrorists on his website, trueislam1.com.
After his arrest, information surfaced that the Federal Bureau of Investigation had declined to get involved in the case as they thought Pimentel was incapable of successfully executing the attack and was merely mentally unstable. The Huffington Post reported that Pimentel smoked marijuana with the New York City Police Department"s cooperating informant in the case, and was likely high when making some of the incriminating statements recorded by police.