Boston Bomb Suspect Friend’s Released on Bail to Mother
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The 19-year-old man accused of lying to federal investigators probing the role of his college friend Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in the Boston Marathon bombing was released on bail into the custody of his mother.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Marianne Bowler in Boston yesterday allowed Robel Phillipos to be released under “strict house arrest.” His mother, Genet Bekele, who moved to the U.S. after fleeing a famine in her native Ethiopia in 1982, agreed to act as her son’s third-party custodian. A $100,000 bond will be secured by a home put up by two supporters.