Crime & Safety

Tsarnaev Friend to Plea Guilty

The plea agreement could cut his sentence in half.

The Quincy cabdriver friend of accused Boston Marathon bombers Dzhokhar and deceased Tamerlan Tsarnaev has agreed to plead guilty to reduced charges that he lied to authorities investigating the explosions, according to court records.

The Boston Globe reported that a federal judge on Tuesday set a January 27 plea hearing for 24-year-old Khairullozhon Matanov, who legally came to the United States from Kyrgyzstan in 2011.

The plea agreement could result in a sentence about half of what Matanov might have received if he went to trial and was found guilty.

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Prosecutors say Matanov deleted files and videos from his computer and phone in the days after the bombing.

Read the Boston Globe story here.

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