UPDATED: Apr 20, 2013 03:59 GMT
The second suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings was taken
into custody Friday night, bringing to an end a massive manhunt
in the tense Massachusetts capital worried by warnings the man
was possibly armed with explosives.
After announcing the arrest on Twitter, Boston police tweeted:
"CAPTURED!!! The hunt is over. The search is done. The terror
is over. And justice has won. Suspect in custody."
Authorities confirmed the man in custody is 19-year-old Dzhokar
Tsarnaev, who escaped an overnight shootout with police that left
his older brother Tamerlan Tsarnaev -- the other man wanted in
the bombings -- dead.
The younger Tsarnaev was in serious condition, Boston Police
Commissioner Ed Davis said at a news conference. He was being
treated at Boston's Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center,
hospital spokeswoman Kelly Lawman said.
Tsarnaev was cornered late Friday as he was hiding on a boat in a
backyard of Watertown, a suburb of Boston.
Police were alerted to his whereabouts by a man who went
outside after authorities lifted an order for residents to stay inside
during the manhunt. The resident saw blood on a boat in the
backyard, Davis said. He then lifted up the tarp covering the boat
and "saw a man covered with blood," he said.
It was that call that resulted in an arrest less than a week after two
bombs exploded near the finish line of the Boston Marathon,
shocking the nation and leaving a city on edge.
"There was an exchange of gunfire, and I don't know if he was
struck," Davis said of the suspect.
Authorities, using a bullhorn, had called on the suspect to
surrender: "Come out with your hands up."
Tsarnaev, according to authorities, refused to surrender.
"We used a robot to pull the tarp off the boat," David Procopio of
the Massachusetts State Police said. "We were also watching him
with a thermal imaging camera in our helicopter. He was
weakened by blood loss -- injured last night most likely,"
Tsarnaev was taken into custody after authorities rushed the boat,
Davis said.
Closing a chapter
The standoff and subsequent arrest came just minutes after
authorities indicated during a news conference that a manhunt for
the suspect appeared to come up empty.
Authorities had cast a wide net for the suspect, virtually shutting
down Boston and its surroundings after a violent night in which
authorities say the brothers allegedly hurled explosives at
pursuers, after killing Massachusetts Institute of Technology
police Officer Sean Collier and hijacking a car.
"We've closed an important chapter in this tragedy," President
Barack Obama said in a televised address. Even so, he vowed to
seek answers to the motive in the attack and find out whether the
suspects received any help to carry out their plot.
The government is invoking the public safety exception to
question Tsarnaev, meaning in cases of national security a person
can be questioned without being read their Miranda rights, a
Justice Department official told CNN on condition of anonymity.
The official is not authorized to publicly discuss the matter.
U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz told reporters the "government has
that opportunity right now" to invoke the public safety exemption
but stopped short of declaring it would take that step, saying only
the suspect was in the hospital.

Source: www.cnnmobile.com/primary/fullarticle?topic=newsarticle&category=intl&articleId=cnn/2013/04/19/us/boston-area-violence#page2

Wow. In less than a week Country pass country abeg.

And the "active police" we enthrust our lives and property are busy sleeping... [img]http://nigeriafilms.com/image.aspx?img=Y29udGVudC9jb250ZW50L3BvbGljZWVlZWVlLmpwZ3w2MDA=[/img]

Quite Impressive to say the least.
Unlike here in Naija, where Boko boys eventually escape from the Military all the time.

If america wants your ass there is no where you can escape to. I mean they invaded a country to get ossama then ilegally enterd another when he escaped.

Moral of the story. Don't pull the tigers tail if you not ready for the claw.