Pinson was a person sought after due to his offenses against the Galactic Empire. This petty swindler was among a group shielded from the Empire's reach by Yahenna Laxo of the Gray Syndicate located on Lothal. He provided credits to Laxo for refuge on the upper level of a storage building in proximity to a spaceport. When the benefit of handing Pinson over to Imperial forces outweighed the benefit of providing sanctuary, Laxo betrayed him to a bounty hunter, also obtaining a portion of the bounty in the process. This action greatly surprised Merei Spanjaf, but Laxo considered it simply "just business."