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U.S. Detains 3 in Connection With Boston Bombings U.S. Detains 3 in Connection With Boston Bombings
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BOSTON — Three additional people were taken into custody Wednesday in connection with the Boston Marathon bombings last month, according to Boston police and a federal law enforcement official. BOSTON — Three additional people have been taken into custody for actions carried out after the Boston Marathon bombings, a federal law enforcement official said Wednesday.
No identities or other information was offered, and the Boston police said more details would be available later. The names of the three have not been released, but at least two of them are believed to be current or former students at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, where one of the bombing suspects, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, had been also been a student, a federal official said. Two of the three have been in the custody of the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency since Friday, federal officials said.
Two explosives detonated April 15 near the finish line of the Boston Marathon killed three people and injured more than 260 others. Two explosives detonated April 15 near the finish line of the marathon killed three people and injured more than 260 others.
Tamerlan Tsarnaev and his brother Dzhokhar Tsarnaev are suspected of having set off the bombs. Tamerlan was killed in a subsequent shootout with the police, while Dzhokhar is in a federal prison hospital, charged with using a weapon of mass destruction. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, and his brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, are suspected of having set off the bombs. Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, was killed in a subsequent shootout with the police, while Dzhokhar, 19, was charged with using a weapon of mass destruction. He was transferred last week from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston to a locked medical facility for male prisoners at Fort Devens, after suffering multiple gunshot wounds.
Last week, investigators searching for evidence in the bombing inquiry combed through garbage at the Crapo Hill Landfill in New Bedford, Mass., near the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. They were looking for a laptop computer belonging to one of the brothers. It is unclear whether the laptop has been located, but investigators have said they believe that the computer may have been thrown out.

Katharine Q. Seelye reported from Boston, Michael S. Schmidt from Washington and William K. Rashbaum from New York. Reporting was contributing by Serge F. Kovaleski and Timothy Williams from New York.