More Boston Bombing Arrests: What We Know About the Three New Suspects
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The Boston Police Department says that three more suspects have been taken into custody in relation to the Apr. 15 bombings near the Boston Marathon finish line that killed three people and injured more than 260. NBC News and the Boston Globe are reporting that the suspects are the college roommates of alleged 19-year-old Boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who authorities say carried out the bombing with his older brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev. Tamerlan, 26, was killed in a shootout with police just three days after two allegedly detonated pressure cooker bombs at the marathon. The younger Tsarnaev managed to escape and was later caught by police after a day-long manhunt that stretched from the campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge to the Boston suburb of Watertown where the two brothers lived in a third-floor apartment. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has been charged with using weapons of mass destruction amid a probe that has led investigators to question anyone who may have known the brothers and their motives. The search led them to the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth, just 60 miles south of Boston, where Dzhokhar was formerly enrolled. On Wednesday morning, authorities arrested three students from the university in connection with the bombings. Boston Attorney Linda Cristello told the Associated Press that two out of the three are her clients Azamat Tazhayakov and Dias Kadyrbayev, college students from Kazakhstan who made a video appearance in immigration court Wednesday. They have been held in county jail for over a week due to “allegations that they violated their student visas while attending the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth.” The suspects may have helped remove belongings from the Chechen student’s dorm room after the tragedy, sources tell NBC: Two of the pals were detained April 20 on immigration charges and a third has now been taken into custody, sources said. They are expected to face obstruction of justice charges, the sources said. There was no indication the three University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth students had any prior knowledge of the bombing. In addition to obstruction of justice, the students are expected to be charged
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