-LRB- CNN -RRB- -- Faisal Shahzad had two faces , investigators and people who knew him say . He was a suburban father in Connecticut , married to an American citizen educated in Colorado . Wife Huma Mian , pretty and smiling in a Facebook picture , wore a traditional Muslim head scarf and posted on her page that she loved to shop . Shahzad , a Pakistani who became a naturalized U.S. citizen in April 2009 , worked as a financial analyst in Connecticut before leaving that job last June . His neighbors describe him as quiet and nice , but a little odd -- a man who liked to jog at night wearing all black and who once remarked that he did n't like the sunlight . Shahzad is suspected of trying to blow up a Nissan Pathfinder in Times Square on Saturday . He was arrested Monday night at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York as his flight to Dubai was about to take off , law enforcement officials said . Shahzad , 30 , has been charged with five counts in connection with the case , according to documents filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in New York . The documents say he admitted to law enforcement officials that he attempted to detonate the bomb and that he recently received bomb-making training in the Waziristan region of Pakistan . Shahzad returned to the United States via a one-way ticket from Pakistan on February 3 , according to a criminal complaint . He told immigration officials upon his return that he had been visiting his parents in Pakistan for the previous five months , the complaint said . Shahzad has a Karachi identification card , a sign of Pakistani residency , and his family is from northwestern Pakistan , according to Pakistani Interior Minister Rehman Malik . His father is a retired senior officer in the Pakistani Air Force , Shahzad 's cousin , Kafayat Ali , said on Tuesday . The father , Bahar Ul Haq , a former air vice marshal , lives in the Peshawar suburb of Hayatabad in Pakistan . Pakistani authorities in Karachi picked up for questioning Iftikhar Mian , the father-in-law of suspect Faisal Shahzad , and Tauseef Ahmed , Shahzad 's friend , on Tuesday , two intelligence officials said . An intelligence source said Wednesday that a different associate of Shahzad also was detained on Tuesday . That associate allegedly was instrumental in making possible a meeting between Shahzad and at least one senior Taliban official in Pakistan last July , a senior Pakistani official said Wednesday . It 's unclear where Faisal Shahzad 's wife , Mian , is now , although he told immigration officials in February that she was in Pakistan . Shahzad came to the United States and attended college , earning a bachelor 's degree in computer applications and information systems from Connecticut 's University of Bridgeport in 2000 . He earned an MBA at the school in 2005 . He started working as a junior financial analyst for Affinion Media Group in Norwalk , Connecticut , in 2006 , leaving voluntarily in June 2009 , according to Affinion spokesman Michael Bush . In October 2008 , Shahzad reported getting married to Mian , who graduated from the University of Colorado-Boulder with a degree in degree in business with emphasis in accounting , university spokesman Bronson Hilliard said . A student from 2000 to 2004 , Mian lived in a dorm the first few years , and then in family housing with her sisters her last two years at the school . Mian 's Facebook page , which has apparently been disabled , had a picture with her smiling and wearing a hot pink head scarf . Shahzad , Mian and two children and Mian 's two sisters lived in Shelton , Connecticut , for about three years , moving out in July 2009 , according to neighbor Brenda Thurman . Mian spoke English , but was apparently so insecure about her language ability that she told people she did not , Thurman said . `` I never knew she spoke English until it was time for her to move , '' Thurman said . Thurman saw him in his yard with his children , a boy and a girl , and the family usually wore traditional Muslim attire , Thurman told WTNH-TV . Thurman said her daughter often played with Shahzad 's daughter , but she herself did n't have much contact with the family . `` He also came out and played with them on occasion . He really loved his kids , '' Thurman told CNN 's `` Larry King Live '' on Tuesday . She said Shahzad gave her daughter an old computer of his . Investigators were in the process of confiscating the computer on Tuesday , she said . Shahzad 's wife told Thurman in July 2009 that the family was moving to Missouri . A few weeks after they left their home , the lender foreclosed on the property and changed the locks , Thurman said . At the Bridgeport , Connecticut , residence where authorities say he lived most recently , agents with the FBI and local police , including members of a bomb squad , conducted a search , and investigators removed filled plastic bags . CNN 's Deborah Feyerick , Jim Spellman , Drew Griffin , Joneil Adriano , Samson Desta , Reza Sayah , Jim Kavanagh and the CNN Wire Staff contributed to this report .