A college friend of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was released from prison on Wednesday and handed over to federal immigration officials, who plan to deport him to his native Kazakhstan.
Kadyrbayev was sentenced to six years in prison in 2015 for removing items from Tsarnaev's dorm room at the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth, after recognizing Tsarnaev in photos released by the FBI days after the 2013 bombing. Prosecutors said there was no evidence he knew about the bombing in advance.