The breakthrough came from Jeffrey Bauman, one of the victims of the Boston Marathon blasts, who identified one of the bombers. The city's police commissioner, Ed Davis, said that a combination of technology, citizens, and police helped the investigators find the suspects.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who was seized on Friday night, is now conscious. The 19-year-old is responding to investigators in writing, as he is unable to speak because of a throat wound.
Edward Davis says that the identification system used by the city "came up empty." The breakthrough came as a result of a mixture of citizen journalism, police legwork, and technology--one agent watched the same video clip 400 times.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is asking the public for tips on a mystery hobbyist UAV that almost strayed into the flight path of an intercontinental jet.
An official FBI publication is urging local law enforcement to monitor Twitter and Facebook but warns officers not to post inappropriate items to their personal accounts.
The gang, with members in the U.S., U.K., Macedonia, New Zealand, Croatia and Bosnia and Hertzegovina, were responsible for an $850 million crime spree.
