Just this for now:
Three additional suspects taken into custody in Marathon bombing case. Details to follow.
— Boston Police Dept. (@Boston_Police) May 1, 2013 [5]
The reason for the arrest:
BREAKING NEWS U/D - 3 SUSPECTS ARRESTED FOR HARBORING/AIDING BOSTON MARATHOJN BOMBING SUSPECTS AFTER THE FACT. WILL BE FEDERAL CHARGES. CBS.
— 911 Operator (@911BUFF) May 1, 2013 [6]
BREAKING NEWS U/D - 3 SUSPECTS ARRESTED IN CONNECTION OF MARATHON BOMBINGS ARE COLLEGE STUDENTS! HELPED SUSPECTS HIDE AND ESCAPE! MPOPPEL.
— 911 Operator (@911BUFF) May 1, 2013 [7]
BREAKING NEWS U/D - AT LEAST ONE OF THE THREE COLLEGE STUDENTS ARRESTED IN CONNECTION TO THE MARATHON BOMBINGS ARE AMERICAN CITIZEN. CNN.
— 911 Operator (@911BUFF) May 1, 2013 [8]
Reuters summarizes [9]:
Three additional suspects have been taken into custody in the investigation of last month's bombings at the Boston Marathon, the Boston Police Department said in its official Twitter feed on Wednesday.
A police spokeswoman, Katherine Shea, said by telephone that she had no further details to provide.
"It's happening right now," Shea said.
Investigators had previously identified two suspects, ethnic Chechen brothers they said placed pressure-cooker bombs at the race's finish line on April 15.
One, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, is being held in a prison medical center after being formally charged with crimes that carry the death penalty. His older brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, died in a gunfight with police three days after the bombing that killed three people and injured 264 others.
Tamerlan's body has still not been claimed, a spokesman for the state's chief medical examiner said.
"We still have not been contacted by the family," said the spokesman, Terrel Harris.
The parents of the Tsarnaev brothers have said in interviews in the North Caucasus region of Russia that they do not believe their sons were responsible for the bombs.