Second Boston bomber friend jailed 3.5 years

NEW TORK: A second college friend of convicted Boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was sentenced to jail on Friday for obstruction and conspiracy that impeded the FBI investigation into the 2013 attacks.
Azamat Tazhayakov, a student from an affluent family in Kazakhstan, was sentenced to three and a half years.
He was convicted in July and faces deportation after serving his sentence. He has already spent more than two years in custody.
Fellow friend and Kazakh student Dias Kadyrbayev, who was also enrolled at the University of Dartmouth, Massachusetts, was sentenced to six years on Tuesday for obstructing justice.
The April 15, 2013 bombings at the Boston Marathon were among the deadliest in the United States since the September 11 Al-Qaeda attacks in New York, and sowed terror throughout the city.
Shortly after the Federal Bureau of Investigation released images of the suspects to the public on April 18, Kadyrbayev and Tazhayakov went to Tsarnaev’s dorm room to remove incriminating evidence.