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A jury has found Azamat Tazhayakov guilty of impeding an investigation and conspiracy after prosecutors said he removed a backpack from the dorm room of accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the Associated Press reports.A jury has found Azamat Tazhayakov guilty of impeding an investigation and conspiracy after prosecutors said he removed a backpack from the dorm room of accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the Associated Press reports.
Prosecutors said Tazhayakov and a friend removed items including fireworks that had been tampered with from Tsarnaev’s dorm room at the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth a few days after the 2013 attack. Prosecutors said Tazhayakov and a friend removed items including fireworks that had been tampered with from Tsarnaev’s dorm room at the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth a few days after the 2013 attack. Tazhayakov one of three of Tsarnaev’s college friends friends charged following the bombing.
Three people were killed and more than 260 injured when two bombs exploded at the finish line of the Boston Marathon. Dzhokar is accused of planting the bombs with his brother, Tamerlan, and leading police on a days-long manhunt in the Boston area.Three people were killed and more than 260 injured when two bombs exploded at the finish line of the Boston Marathon. Dzhokar is accused of planting the bombs with his brother, Tamerlan, and leading police on a days-long manhunt in the Boston area.
Lawyers for Tazhayakov unsuccessfully argued that Dias Kaydrbayev, another friend of the suspect's, removed the backpack from Tsarnaev’s room. Prosecutors said both men agreed to remove the items. Kadyrbayev is scheduled to stand trial in the fall. Tazhayakov and another Kazakh student, Dias Kadyrbayev, were accused of removing a backpack containing a laptop and fireworks that had been emptied of gunpowder from Tsarnaev’s room. The pair then allegedly threw the backpack away.
More soon … Tazhayakov was found not guilty of removing the laptop from Tsarnaev’s room, a separate charge.
A third student, US citizen Robel Phillipos, allegedly lied to police about his whereabouts. Police believe he was in Tsarnaev’s apartment. Kadyrbayev later told police he threw the backpack into a dumpster near his apartment in New Bedford, Massachusetts, to "in order to help his friend Tsarnaev avoid trouble”, according to the criminal complaint.
Lawyers for Tazhayakov unsuccessfully argued that Kadyrbayev removed the backpack from Tsarnaev’s room. Prosecutors said both men agreed to remove the items, though Kadyrbayev took the lead, in an effort to protect their friend after Dzhokhar’s image was widely broadcast by the media and FBI, according to the Boston Globe.
Tazhayakov was the first of those charged in connection to the Boston Marathon bombing to go to trial.
Tamerlan Tsarnaev died during a shootout with police in suburban Watertown, Massachusetts, and Dzhokhar is awaiting trial, scheduled to start in October. His attorneys unsuccessfully argued to move his trial, saying he couldn’t get an impartial jury in the Boston area.
Kadyrbayev is scheduled to stand trial in the fall.