01-05-2013, 06:57 PM
(This post was last modified: 01-05-2013, 09:05 PM by Peter Lemkin.)
BOSTON (CBS/AP) Three additional suspects were arrested Wednesday in the Boston Marathon bombings investigation.
Their names have not been released, but according to CBS News, all three are friends of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. CBS News correspondent Bob Orr reports the charges are under seal, but they are related to incidents after the bombings and interfering with investigators.
Police said more details will be revealed later today and noted that there is no threat to the public. The three are expected in federal court in South Boston Wednesday afternoon.
Two will be charged with conspiracy to obstruct justice and making false statements. They are not U.S. citizens.
According to WBZ-TV's Karen Anderson, their names are Azamat Tazhayakov and Dias Kadyrbayev. Both are originally from Kazakhstan and attended the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth with Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
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Azamat Tazhayakov (left) and Dias Kadyrbayev (middle) with Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in Times Square. (Photo via vk.com)
The third suspect, according to Anderson, was born and raised in Massachusetts. He will be charged with making false statements, CBS reported.
Sources told CBS News senior correspondent John Miller that investigators arrested the three for harboring or aiding Tsarnaev after the fact.
Orr said, at this point in the probe, there is no evidence of Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev having direct help before the bombings.
The three were not arrested in the city of Boston, but nearby, according to Miller. This is possibly connected to the house raided in New Bedford on the Friday after the bombing.
Authorities had recently searched a landfill near UMass-Dartmouth, but they have not said what was found.
Earlier today, lawyers for Tazhayakov and Kadyrbayev said their clients have been extensively interviewed by federal investigators.
The two men appeared via video for a visa violation hearing in immigration court in Boston on Wednesday.
They have been held in a county jail for more than a week on allegations that they violated their student visas while attending UMass-Dartmouth with Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
One of the three people taken into custody in New Bedford April 19. (Photo courtesy: Darlene Ryms)
The marathon attack was not mentioned in court and their cases were continued.
Their attorneys said afterward that authorities have not indicated their clients had anything to do with the bombings. Federal authorities would not comment.
Attorney Robert Stahl said Tazhayakov and Kadyrbayev were drawn to Tsarnaev because he also spoke Russian.
Their names have not been released, but according to CBS News, all three are friends of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. CBS News correspondent Bob Orr reports the charges are under seal, but they are related to incidents after the bombings and interfering with investigators.
Police said more details will be revealed later today and noted that there is no threat to the public. The three are expected in federal court in South Boston Wednesday afternoon.
Two will be charged with conspiracy to obstruct justice and making false statements. They are not U.S. citizens.
According to WBZ-TV's Karen Anderson, their names are Azamat Tazhayakov and Dias Kadyrbayev. Both are originally from Kazakhstan and attended the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth with Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
Azamat Tazhayakov (left) and Dias Kadyrbayev (middle) with Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in Times Square. (Photo via vk.com)
The third suspect, according to Anderson, was born and raised in Massachusetts. He will be charged with making false statements, CBS reported.
Sources told CBS News senior correspondent John Miller that investigators arrested the three for harboring or aiding Tsarnaev after the fact.
Orr said, at this point in the probe, there is no evidence of Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev having direct help before the bombings.
The three were not arrested in the city of Boston, but nearby, according to Miller. This is possibly connected to the house raided in New Bedford on the Friday after the bombing.
Authorities had recently searched a landfill near UMass-Dartmouth, but they have not said what was found.
Earlier today, lawyers for Tazhayakov and Kadyrbayev said their clients have been extensively interviewed by federal investigators.
The two men appeared via video for a visa violation hearing in immigration court in Boston on Wednesday.
They have been held in a county jail for more than a week on allegations that they violated their student visas while attending UMass-Dartmouth with Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
One of the three people taken into custody in New Bedford April 19. (Photo courtesy: Darlene Ryms)
The marathon attack was not mentioned in court and their cases were continued.
Their attorneys said afterward that authorities have not indicated their clients had anything to do with the bombings. Federal authorities would not comment.
Attorney Robert Stahl said Tazhayakov and Kadyrbayev were drawn to Tsarnaev because he also spoke Russian.
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"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
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