Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's Friends Sentenced To Prison - From Incidents, Accidents and Crime Review
From Incidents, Accidents and Crime Review Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's Friends Sentenced To Prison Sunday June 7 th , 2015 at 7:27 PM Crime - The Huffington Post 1 Share (Adds context, statement from Phillipos' mother, paragraphs 5 and 9-10) By Scott Malone BOSTON, June 5 (Reuters) - Two college friends of the Boston Marathon bomber were sentenced to prison on Friday for removing a backpack containing empty fireworks shells from Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's dorm room amid a massive manhunt three days after the deadly 2013 attack. Kazakh exchange student Azamat Tazhayakov was sentenced to 3-1/2 years for obstructing justice by taking, with his roommate, Tsarnaev's pack and dropping it in a dumpster by the off-campus apartment they shared. Robel Phillipos, of Cambridge, Massachusetts, was sentenced to three years in prison for lying to investigators about the incident, which occurred in the hours after the FBI released images of Tsarnae