Dive summary:
- Investigators are searching the Crapo Hill Waste Facility in New Bedford in hopes of finding important evidence connected to the Boston Marathon bombing.
- The landfill is several miles from the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, where Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was a student.
- Investigators have not said if they are looking for anything specific, though they have said they are searching a number of places as a part of a far-reaching inspection.
From the article:
The officials said the search had been going on for at least three days. The Crapo Hill landfill is several miles from the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth where Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was a sophomore. Students saw him on campus after the terror attack.
In his UMass dorm room, the FBI said in court papers, investigators recovered a “large pyrotechnic,’’ a white baseball hat, and a black jacket similar to the one Tsarnaev was allegedly wearing when two bombs were detonated at the Boston Marathon April 15, killing three people and wounding 264.
An FBI spokesperson today refused to confirm the search, only saying, “We are conducting searches in many locations as part of a far-reaching investigation.” ...
