In this courtroom sketch, Dias Kadyrbayev, second from right, testifies in federal court Monday, June 2, 2014, in Boston. Kadyrbayev, a native of Kazakhstan and friend of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, is accused of removing items from Tsarnaev's dorm room several days after the 2013 bombings. He testified Monday, during a hearing on his request to suppress statements he made to authorities, that he did not understand his constitutional rights while he was being questioned following the attack. (AP Photo/Jane Flavell Collins) (The Associated Press)
BOSTON – A man told federal agents he suspected his friend Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (joh-HAHR' tsahr-NEYE'-ehv) was being sought in the Boston Marathon bombing when he removed items from Tsarnaev's dorm room.
Dias Kadyrbayev (DY'-us kah-dur-BY'-ehv) acknowledged during testimony Tuesday that he suspected Tsarnaev was one of two men whose photographs were released by the FBI three days after twin explosions at the 2013 marathon killed three people and injured more than 260.
Authorities say he told them that he and another Tsarnaev friend went to Tsarnaev's dorm room at the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth and took Tsarnaev's backpack containing fireworks and threw it in a trash bin.
Kadyrbayev's testimony came while he was cross-examined by a prosecutor during a hearing on his request to suppress the statements he made to authorities.
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