UPDATE: Reported Terrorism Arrest

UPDATE: New York (CNN) -- Authorities have arrested a man they claim was plotting to detonate pipe bombs in and around New York, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Sunday night.

The intended targets of Jose Pimentel, 27, were U.S. military personnel who had served in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as U.S. postal facilities and police stations, according to Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Ray Kelly.

The suspect was described by Bloomberg as an "al Qaeda sympathizer," though he is not believed to have ever made direct contact with anyone in the organization.

"There is no evidence he worked with anyone else," Bloomberg said. "He appears to be ... a lone wolf."

He was arrested at 3:30 p.m. Saturday in an apartment in Washington Heights, a neighborhood in northern Manhattan, as he began to drill holes in the would-be pipe bomb, Kelly said. While authorities had monitored him for over two years, they decided to move quickly for fear that device may soon explode, according to the commissioner.

The suspect allegedly learned how to make a pipe bomb after reading Inspire, the al Qaeda terrorist network's English-language online propaganda, recruiting and training magazine.

"He was a reader of al Qaeda's slick online magazine Inspire -- and inspire him it did," Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance said. "His stated desire to attack our servicemen and women ... could have come from an al Qaada playbook."


By  NEEWSCORE

NEW YORK - New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is scheduled to hold a news conference Sunday evening that is reportedly terrorism-related.

NYPD Commissioner Raymond Kelly is also expected to attend the news conference, called on short notice, and scheduled for 7:30 p.m.

The suspect was planning to bomb city police facilities and US military sites, where he plotted to target returning war personnel and the families who gathered to welcome them home, The NY Post reported, citing unnamed sources.

The suspect, who lives in Manhattan, was arrested after he actually purchased bomb-making materials, according to The Post.

The Daily News described him as a Dominican with an anti-American grudge.