Boston suspect ID'd: Police say suspect arrested, press conference set
Boston suspect ID'd? After almost two full days since the Boston Marathon bombings, an arrest has been made on a suspect that investigators identified as a suspect earlier on Wednesday, April 17, 2013. CNN made the revelation on Wednesday afternoon that a suspect had been identified but then an announcement of the arrest came shortly after and a press conference is set for 5:00 p.m. EST.
UPDATE #3 at 2:45 p.m.: "Significant progress has been made, but anyone saying an arrest has been made is ahead of themselves." - Word from the U.S. Attorney General is that a suspect "has" been identified, but no arrest has been made.
UPDATE #2: A press conference is still scheduled for 5:00 p.m. EST, but media reports and the FBI says that there is no suspect identified and no arrest.
UPDATE: Conflicting reports about an arrest are coming out now as of 2:30 p.m. EST - CNN and NBC say that there has been no arrest and they don't even have an identification of a suspect. The Associated Press says that there is an ID and an arrest.
Word is that a breakthrough in the investigation came from the video of a Lord & Taylor department store near the site of the second explosion. The arrest finally came based on two different videos showing images of the suspect.
“The camera from Lord & Taylor is the best source of video so far,” said Dot Joyce, a spokeswoman for Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino told the Boston Globe. “All I know is that they are making progress.”
The videos are said to have showed a young man carrying and then dropping a black bag at the scene of the second bomb explosion at Monday's Boston Marathon. The young man is also said to be a "brown-skinned individual" by multiple reports.
More information has come out about the devices / pressure cooker bombs that were used in the tragic bombings. A circuit board suspected of being used to detonate one of the bombs has been recovered along with the top of a pressure cooker.
UPDATE #3 at 2:45 p.m.: "Significant progress has been made, but anyone saying an arrest has been made is ahead of themselves." - Word from the U.S. Attorney General is that a suspect "has" been identified, but no arrest has been made.
UPDATE #2: A press conference is still scheduled for 5:00 p.m. EST, but media reports and the FBI says that there is no suspect identified and no arrest.
UPDATE: Conflicting reports about an arrest are coming out now as of 2:30 p.m. EST - CNN and NBC say that there has been no arrest and they don't even have an identification of a suspect. The Associated Press says that there is an ID and an arrest.
Word is that a breakthrough in the investigation came from the video of a Lord & Taylor department store near the site of the second explosion. The arrest finally came based on two different videos showing images of the suspect.
“The camera from Lord & Taylor is the best source of video so far,” said Dot Joyce, a spokeswoman for Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino told the Boston Globe. “All I know is that they are making progress.”
The videos are said to have showed a young man carrying and then dropping a black bag at the scene of the second bomb explosion at Monday's Boston Marathon. The young man is also said to be a "brown-skinned individual" by multiple reports.
More information has come out about the devices / pressure cooker bombs that were used in the tragic bombings. A circuit board suspected of being used to detonate one of the bombs has been recovered along with the top of a pressure cooker.
