Boston bomber texted ‘lol’ to three college friends who warned him his face was 'all over the news' as they are arrested for throwing out his backpack to help cover his tracks - Three taken into custody helped Dzhokhar Tsarnaev cover up for the bombing after the fatal blasts
- Two identified as Dias Kadyrbayev and Azamat Tazhayakov, both Kazakh nationals who were in custody already on immigration issues
- Third suspect named as Robel Phillipos of Cambridge, Massachusetts
- All three are 19-years-old, the same age as Dzhokhar
- Three 'disposed of materials for the bomber at a landfill after attack'
- Boston police say there is no threat to public safety
By Meghan Keneally and Daily Mail Reporter
PUBLISHED: 03:44 GMT, 2 May 2013 | UPDATED: 07:22 GMT, 2 May 2013
When Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's college friend sent a text warning the Boston bomber that his fast was all over the news, 19-year-old Tsarnaev responded with 'lol' - universal text message-speak for a joke.
Tsarnaev then told his pal Dias Kadyrbayev: 'You better not text me.'
Kadyrbayev is one of three of Tsarnaev's college friends arrested on Wednesday by federal authorities and accused of trying to cover the suspected terrorist's tracks by throwing away his computer and a backpack full of firearms.
Kadyrbayev and Azamat Tazhayakov, both Kazakh nationals, were charged with conspiring to obstruct justice by destroying evidence. An American named Robel Phillipos is charged with knowingly and willfully making false statements to investigators.
The three young men were friends of Tsarneav at the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth, where the 19-year-old bomb suspect was a promising student.
According to the criminal complaint from federal authorities, Kadyrbayev sent a text message to Tsarnaev on April 18 after the FBI released surveillance images of him at the Boston Marathon with his brother Tamerlan.
Kadyrbayev warned his friend that that he was plastered across TV News.
'Tsarnaev’s return texts contained ‘lol’ and other things KADYRBAYEV interpreted as jokes,' documents say.
He also wrote: 'You better not text me’ and ‘Come to my room and take whatever you want'
Kadyrbayev and Tazhayakov had already been in police custody for more than a week at the time of their arrest because they were previously questioned about their license plate that reads ‘TERRORISTA#1’. Authorities then held them on immigration issues because they are in the country illegally after their academic visas expired.
The nature of these charges suggests that none of these young men helped plan the fatal Marathon bombing, which left three dead and more than 200 injured, but they did work to cover Tsarnaev’s tracks from investigators and evade capture.
The detailed criminal complaint goes through the timeline of events according to each of the 19-year-olds, all of whom met Tsarnaev when they started school at UMASS-Dartmouth in the same semester in the fall of 2011.
Like many throughout Boston, none of the three boys had any inkling that Tsarnaev was involved until the FBI released pictures of the two suspects, later identified as 19-year-old Dzhokhar and his 26-year-old brother Tamerlan.
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