Three new suspects in the Boston Marathon
bombing case have been taken into custody, the city’s police department
announced Wednesday morning.
From their official Twitter account, the
Boston Police Department confirmed just after 11 a.m. local time that
three suspects have been detained by authorities in regards to the
terrorist attack earlier this month.
According to a police source speaking anonymously with the Boston Globe,
the three latest suspects are area college students who attended the
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth with Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the
19-year-old accused bomber who could face the death penalty of convinced
for his alleged role in the marathon bombing. A source speaking to NBC
alleged that the suspects were all roommates of Tsarnaev at
UMass-Dartmouth, although police have failed to confirm this report.
Nineteen-year-old University of
Massachusetts-Dartmouth college students Azamat Tazhayakov, Dias
Kadyrbayev and Robel Phillipos have been accused of interfering with a
federal probe into the April 15, 2013 terrorist attack at the Boston
Marathon.
Authorities unsealed a criminal complaint
against the men Wednesday afternoon and they were arraigned during 3:30
p.m. hearing in a Massachusetts courthouse. The Boston Globe reported
that attorneys for the men waived bail and will remain in detention
until arguments begin later this month.
Investigators say the three students were
classmates of suspected bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, also 19, and
attempted to hinder an investigation by destroying evidence they
uncovered from his UMass-Dartmouth dormitory room three days after the
marathon bombing.
“All three have admitted on that on
the evening of April 18, 2013, they removed Tsarnaev’s backpack from
Tsarnaev’s dormitory room,” reads the complaint. Kadyrbayev and Tazhayakov, both Kazakhstan nationals, “have
admitted that they agreed to get rid of it after concluding from news
reports that Tsarnaev was one of the Boston Marathon bombers,” it continues.
The two Kazakhstan citizens were in the
US on student visas and were apprehended by authorities over a week ago
for alleged immigration violations; they have been accused of hiding
evidence. Authorities have identified Phillipos as a US citizen who was
also enrolled at Dartmouth and he is accused of making false statements
to the FBI.
According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation complaint unsealed this week, the three students first considered their classmate as a possible suspect in the bombing after the FBI released images on April 18 of two men sought in connection to the blasts. Authorities later identified the two men as ethnic Chechens: Dzhokhar and his 26-year-old brother Tamerlan Tsarnaev.
Approximately four hours after photos of the Tsarnaev brothers first began to be widely circulated on the afternoon of April 18, the FBI says Phillipos told Kadyrbayev to put on the news when he got home “because one of the suspects in the Marathon bombing suspect looked familiar. Once he turned on the TV, Kadyrbayev texted Tazhayakov’s cell phone to ask, “Have you seen the news?”
Shortly after, the complaint continues, Kadyrbayev, Tazhayakov and Phillipos went to Tsarnaev’s Dartmouth dorm room and were let in by a roommate. There they stayed for a considerable amount of time watching a movie and eventually made contact with the 19-year-old suspect.
A police source speaking to the Globe
said authorities believe two of the suspects may have helped he accused
bomber after the April 15 terrorist attack and are expected to be
charged with obstruction of justice and making false statements.
A detain police statement is still
forthcoming, but before 12 noon on Wednesday the department tweeted that
there is no threat to public safety at this time in regards to the
attack.
Tsarnaev was apprehended by police days
after the attack and has been charged with using a weapon of mass
destruction. His brother, 26-year-old Tamerlan Tsarnaev, is also
believed to have detonated improvised explosives at the Boston Marathon
earlier this month but died days later after engaging in a gun fight
with police. Three people and more than 260 were injured during the
April 15 tragedy.
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