Dive summary:
- Three more men related to the Boston Marathon bombing have been charged from evidence recovered by combing through the New Bedford, Mass. landfill.
- Authorities had found a black bag full of emptied firework and the backpack of another man, which also contained explosives.
- Dias Kadyrbayev and Azamat Tazhayakov are being charged with “obstructed justice by going to Tzarnaev's room to remove the backpack containing the fireworks as well as a laptop computer,” Tazhayakov’s roommate Robel Phillipos will be charged with knowingly giving false information.
From the article:
Kadyrbayev "decided to remove the backpack from the room in order to help his friend Tsarnaev avoid trouble," the complaint states.
After returning to an apartment used by Tazhayakov and Kadyrbayev, it was decided to throw the backpack and fireworks away in a dumpster near where they lived at approximately 10 p.m. that night, the complaint alleges. Tazhayakov and Phillipos "did not participate in placing the trash in to the dumpster but knew" Kadyrbayev did so, the complaint alleges.
Authorities traced the trash disposed of at the apartment to the New Bedford landfill where then then undertook a search to find the evidence, the complaint states. The bag in question was found on April 26. ...
