• May 1, 2013
• By Jim Johnson

A search for evidence in the deadly Boston Marathon bombings at a landfill has led to charges against three more people who are friends of the alleged terrorist.

Authorities, today, revealed that they recovered a black plastic trash bag at the Crapo Hill landfill in New Bedford, Mass., that contained fireworks emptied of their gunpowder that authorities believe was used to make the bombs.

Law enforcement officials also recovered bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's backpack from the landfill.

"The backpack was partially enclosed in a black garbage bag with red drawstring handles. Inside the backpack, the agents recovered fireworks," a federal criminal complaint filed in Massachusetts today reveals.

Dias Kadyrbayev and Azamat Tazhayakov allegedly obstructed justice by going to Tzarnaev's room to remove the backpack containing the fireworks as well as a laptop computer, the federal government alleges.

Another friend, Robel Phillipos allegedly made false statements to federal law enforcement officials during the bombing investigation. All three men traveled to Tsarnaev's dorm room at the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth between 6 and 7 p.m. April 18 -- a short time after the FBI released the first images of the suspected bombers -- and discovered the fireworks emptied of powder, the complaint alleges.

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.

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