Robbery, Murder & Theft? The Tsarnaev Brothers' Alleged Crime Spree
by W. Owl
January 4, 2015
The
7-Eleven Robbery, the Officer Sean Collier Murder and The Carjacking
Three crimes framed the Tsarnaevs as “plausible terrorists” in the eyes of the public, and led to the unquestioned acceptance of their misdeeds in Watertown.
Three crimes framed the Tsarnaevs as “plausible terrorists” in the eyes of the public, and led to the unquestioned acceptance of their misdeeds in Watertown.
Watertown during 'lockdown' and search for Dzhokhar
On
April 18th, three crimes were blamed on “Suspect #1 and Suspect #2," which
permitted law enforcement to employ an unprecedented ferocity of violence in
sleepy, suburban Watertown. Lack of evidential proof the two had carried out the bombings
was thrown aside when it was reported “the bombers had gone berserk before
leaving town.” These reports created such immense
public fears, seemingly rational individuals and families simply ignored their constitutional rights, engaging in voluntary home confinement and allowing house-to-house warrantless searches, so each could feel “protected.”
Prior to these three events, little evidence connected the brothers to the Marathon bombing. We are told surveillance video shows Suspect #1 walking toward the finish line with a backpack and suspect #2 making cell phone calls, sliding his bag down, not reacting “normally” after blast 1 and walking away before blast 2. It is crucial to note that neither of the Tsarnaevs' bags match the FBI's own description of the bomb-bags. Dzhokhar’s bag was white/silver and both bags appeared lightweight and partially filled, rather than straining under the weight of 6lb round pressure cooker with a long handle.
Prior to these three events, little evidence connected the brothers to the Marathon bombing. We are told surveillance video shows Suspect #1 walking toward the finish line with a backpack and suspect #2 making cell phone calls, sliding his bag down, not reacting “normally” after blast 1 and walking away before blast 2. It is crucial to note that neither of the Tsarnaevs' bags match the FBI's own description of the bomb-bags. Dzhokhar’s bag was white/silver and both bags appeared lightweight and partially filled, rather than straining under the weight of 6lb round pressure cooker with a long handle.
In
three days time, however, the two Tsarnaev brothers had been transformed, (by
MSM relying on law enforcement reports and sources), from “spectators” at
the race, to “Suspect #1 and #2,”
to “Terrorists,”
and to “The
Only Terrorists.”
In the early hours of April 19th, 2013, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and his
brother Tamerlan were judged, juried and executed on the streets of Watertown,
(Dzhokhar escaped within a hair’s breadth of his life ) to the cheers (and jeers)
of the public.
The transformation from suspect to “terrorist” became “plausible” by three crimes reported on 4/18: A 7-Eleven robbery in Central Square, Cambridge; the shooting death at MIT of the campus police officer Sean Collier and a carjacking that ended at the Shell and Mobil Stations on Memorial Drive, Cambridge.
The transformation from suspect to “terrorist” became “plausible” by three crimes reported on 4/18: A 7-Eleven robbery in Central Square, Cambridge; the shooting death at MIT of the campus police officer Sean Collier and a carjacking that ended at the Shell and Mobil Stations on Memorial Drive, Cambridge.
When Exactly did Law Enforcement 'know' it was the Tsarnaevs?
Brothers at the Shell Station, not the 7-Eleven robbery.
Let’s consider, for a moment, a scenario in which the Tsarnaevs did not commit any of these three crimes. At the time all three occurred, they were in fact only suspects in the bombing. They supposedly had not been identified (in spite of the report of literally thousands of calls going into FBI HQ after the 5PM press conference on Thursday) and had not yet been questioned by Authorities.
The 7-Eleven in Central Square was robbed at 10:10 pm Thursday night. Police scanner reported and surveillance footage showed an Hispanic or white male, 5’11” 200 pounds wearing a cowboy and/or a bucket hat, dark clothing, seen brandishing a silver handgun, who fled on foot.
When this story broke in the news media, however, it was immediately reported to have been “the bombers” and news spread quickly. Margaret Chabris, the director of corporate communication at 7- Eleven clarified events for the media, stating the robber did not look anything like the brothers. She spent all day Friday trying to get that corrected and later, to point out that the picture of the brothers at the Shell was not a 7-Eleven outlet. Nonetheless, during the Friday morning press conference, State Police Superintendent Timothy Alben described the manhunt and standoff saying that the 7-Eleven robbery kicked off a crime spree by the bombers. After he was corrected, he said the suspects were at the 7-Eleven around the time of the robbery but they did not rob the store.
Blaming the 7-Eleven robbery on the brothers was integral to the storyline. It placed suspect #1 and suspect #2 in Central Square around 10:10 pm and introduced the notion that the brothers had a silver handgun in their possession. Even knowing now that they did not rob this store, reports by the MSM and official law enforcement web sites still state today the brothers were responsible for this crime. The 7-Eleven robbery remains unsolved.
The baffling death of Officer Collier
Scanners report officer down, 6 rounds fired, not in good condition.
At
the same time that evening, less than a mile away at the corner of Vassar and
Main on the campus of MIT, Campus Police Officer Sean Collier was said to be
sitting in his cruiser in between Stata
Center and Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research. Chief Difava spoke with Collier
personally for several minutes around
9:30pm. At 10:20 pm, scanners report an
officer “just
sitting there, and noises like trash cans.” At 10:31 pm, a gravely wounded
Collier was discovered by fellow MIT Campus Police Officer Clarence Henniger.
There were no eyewitnesses, yet we are told that Collier was responding to a disturbance, or he was shot by the armed 7-Eleven robbers, or he was sitting in his cruiser watching for traffic light violators and/or he had “crossed paths” with the bombers. We are told Collier was snuck up on, assassinated, shot twice from behind in the head, 5 or 6 shots total. We are told via the media outlets there is blurry surveillance video which cannot confirm the identity of the shooter. It supposedly shows two men approaching the cruiser and pulling open his cruiser door. We are told his firearm was stolen, Chief Difava is quoted as saying his firearm was still triple-locked in its holster and/or that his firearm was found nearby by Cambridge K-9. Police scanners mention a struggle and that the shooter would have blood on his clothing.
Not all of these contradictory reports purporting to reveal the "facts" about the Officer's execution-style murder can be true.
This crime was particularly personal to law enforcement. It was a flash point for mobilizing the local law enforcement agencies, undoubtedly spurring many individuals to self-deploy, which led to the mass confusion, traffic jams, stressed commanders and interfered with good police and investigative practices. Did it also serve to muddy the waters so thoroughly trained media personnel on site in Watertown and elsewhere could not accurately observe and reports events that transpired? The Collier murder is said to have resulted in the apprehension of “the bombers.” Without any evidence at all, this crime was blamed on Suspect #1 and Suspect #2. Collier's cruiser, which should serve as evidence, has since been destroyed.
There were no eyewitnesses, yet we are told that Collier was responding to a disturbance, or he was shot by the armed 7-Eleven robbers, or he was sitting in his cruiser watching for traffic light violators and/or he had “crossed paths” with the bombers. We are told Collier was snuck up on, assassinated, shot twice from behind in the head, 5 or 6 shots total. We are told via the media outlets there is blurry surveillance video which cannot confirm the identity of the shooter. It supposedly shows two men approaching the cruiser and pulling open his cruiser door. We are told his firearm was stolen, Chief Difava is quoted as saying his firearm was still triple-locked in its holster and/or that his firearm was found nearby by Cambridge K-9. Police scanners mention a struggle and that the shooter would have blood on his clothing.
Not all of these contradictory reports purporting to reveal the "facts" about the Officer's execution-style murder can be true.
This crime was particularly personal to law enforcement. It was a flash point for mobilizing the local law enforcement agencies, undoubtedly spurring many individuals to self-deploy, which led to the mass confusion, traffic jams, stressed commanders and interfered with good police and investigative practices. Did it also serve to muddy the waters so thoroughly trained media personnel on site in Watertown and elsewhere could not accurately observe and reports events that transpired? The Collier murder is said to have resulted in the apprehension of “the bombers.” Without any evidence at all, this crime was blamed on Suspect #1 and Suspect #2. Collier's cruiser, which should serve as evidence, has since been destroyed.
Calling all Cars: The Carjackers strike, but more than once?
Mysterious carjacking victim gives TV interview!
At
both 11pm and about midnight a single carjacking occurred in two different Cambridge locations with a third in Allston.
(Confused? We are, too.) Around 12:20 am, scanners report the carjack victim was at the Memorial Drive
Mobil asking the cashier to call 911. Police scanner described the carjackers
as two Middle Eastern males, both 5’7” and armed. The carjacking occurred at
Richie’s
Shell, (1001 Cambridge Street), and in the vicinity of Third Street Cambridge
and at 60 Brighton Ave, in Allston. According to police and AP, the victim was
only held for a few minutes and let go. The victim (during several interviews)
says he was carjacked at about 10:58pm in front of 60 Brighton Ave in Allston.
He says he spent either 30 minutes, 60 minutes and/or 90 minutes with his captors.
The victim says he had been following the news of the bombing but he did not think the jackers looked like the “bombing suspect pictures” broadcast just hours earlier. He describes the “main” jacker, later referred to as suspect #1, as a thin young man in dark clothes. He says the jackers spoke only in a foreign language and he only recognized the word “Manhattan”, (leading to reports, later 'clarified,' that the two were on their way to blow up New York City.) Conversely, he also says the jackers made light banter, discussed girls, cars, music, iPhones, the car lease and the cars amenities with him in English and also that jacker #2 “did not say much.” He says jacker #1 confessed to the bombings only and/or confessed to both the bombings and to killing Collier.
He also says they visited three ATM’s and jacker #2 was made to withdraw $800.00 of the victim's money. He says they stopped and the jackers loaded “something” from car jacker #2’s vehicle into the stolen vehicle, then went to the Memorial Drive Shell. The victim never mentions he saw blood on either of the jackers. No blood is seen on #1 or #2 in the Shell or ATM pictures. He says he fled his captors “running as fast as he could” and that he walked away. He says he “got away” when both jackers were outside the car at the Shell, when jacker #1 was in the car and distracted, or when Jacker #1 was at the gas pump.
The Mobil clerk described the victim as Caucasian between 20 to 25 years old. But we were also told the victim was a 26 year old Chinese national whose identity has been kept a secret, even in court documents. Clerk says the victim told him the carjackers pushed him out of the car at the Shell. Both the carjack victim and the Mobil clerk have given interviews with Northeastern Criminologist Professor, Allen Fox, at their side. It is unclear why Professor Fox’s presence was required.
Law enforcement say they used the stolen vehicles’ GPS system and the victims smart phone, (left in the car) to lead them to the jackers in Watertown. We are also told a high speed chase ensued after the carjacking was reported and explosives were thrown out the window. We are also told that law enforcement simply came upon the stolen vehicle by luck and a shoot-out ensued.
The victim says he had been following the news of the bombing but he did not think the jackers looked like the “bombing suspect pictures” broadcast just hours earlier. He describes the “main” jacker, later referred to as suspect #1, as a thin young man in dark clothes. He says the jackers spoke only in a foreign language and he only recognized the word “Manhattan”, (leading to reports, later 'clarified,' that the two were on their way to blow up New York City.) Conversely, he also says the jackers made light banter, discussed girls, cars, music, iPhones, the car lease and the cars amenities with him in English and also that jacker #2 “did not say much.” He says jacker #1 confessed to the bombings only and/or confessed to both the bombings and to killing Collier.
He also says they visited three ATM’s and jacker #2 was made to withdraw $800.00 of the victim's money. He says they stopped and the jackers loaded “something” from car jacker #2’s vehicle into the stolen vehicle, then went to the Memorial Drive Shell. The victim never mentions he saw blood on either of the jackers. No blood is seen on #1 or #2 in the Shell or ATM pictures. He says he fled his captors “running as fast as he could” and that he walked away. He says he “got away” when both jackers were outside the car at the Shell, when jacker #1 was in the car and distracted, or when Jacker #1 was at the gas pump.
The Mobil clerk described the victim as Caucasian between 20 to 25 years old. But we were also told the victim was a 26 year old Chinese national whose identity has been kept a secret, even in court documents. Clerk says the victim told him the carjackers pushed him out of the car at the Shell. Both the carjack victim and the Mobil clerk have given interviews with Northeastern Criminologist Professor, Allen Fox, at their side. It is unclear why Professor Fox’s presence was required.
Law enforcement say they used the stolen vehicles’ GPS system and the victims smart phone, (left in the car) to lead them to the jackers in Watertown. We are also told a high speed chase ensued after the carjacking was reported and explosives were thrown out the window. We are also told that law enforcement simply came upon the stolen vehicle by luck and a shoot-out ensued.
Do 3 Crimes a Crime Wave make?
Each
of the three crimes reinforced the Public's horror and feelings of helpless because “the bombers” were clearly on a renewed violent armed attack, creating a crime spree across Boston after three
days of relative calm. This was supposedly the result of the FBI publishing their Marathon attendance pictures in an
effort to ask the public for help in identification.
The 7-Eleven introduced the notion that the brothers had a silver gun. This was corroborated by the carjack victim, yet we learned that the brothers did not commit the robbery. Yet, the theory remains embedded in the Public's mind the brothers killed Collier because they needed another gun. In hindsight, the 7 minute shootout at Laurel & Dexter in Watertown seemed to make sense of this desperate need for weaponry. However, Collier's gun was not stolen and the brothers could not have anticipated the shootout in Watertown. Only one handgun was said to have been found in Watertown attributed to the brothers, a Ruger, and the color has not been made public.
Finally, the carjacking victim is said to have attended Northeastern University and lives in Cambridge, both with diverse foreign populations. The Arabic language is distinctly different sounding than Russian but the carjack victim identified the men as Middle Eastern after spending either 30 or up to 90 minutes with them. He said the jackers were both 5’7” and both armed. Tamerlan was 6’1” and Dzhokhar, 5’10”. The stolen car is said to have led law enforcement to the “bombers” who shot Collier. The brothers each owned a car of their own--stealing a car would have only drawn more unwelcome law enforcement attention to them if they were attempting to leave town after Thursday's 5PM press conference showing their photos.
In fact, it remains an enigma as to how both the carjack vehicle and Dzhokhar’s green Honda ended up on the same street in Watertown. If the brothers were not involved in these three crimes, is it possible they simply happened to be in Watertown in Dzhokhar’s Honda and were ambushed by law enforcement?
Police scanner broadcasts, video and audio recordings by civilians at Watertown suggest a lot more was underfoot that night than the Public have been told. There were several locations with gun battles and car chases. There were multiple arrests, injuries and deaths, including a man arrested on the ground yelling “It’s a set up” in Russian at a location other than where the brothers were said to have been. There was a man wearing a suicide vest that required three robots to disarm. No clear video exists that reveals the identities of any of the shooters or persons lighting fireworks or throwing flash bangs or “bombs” that night. It is all speculation, based on scanner transcripts, and the law enforcement reports and interviews are conflicting.
Residents were told to shelter in place and to turn off their phones. Streets were blocked off and the media were forced to move back from view. Tamerlan was brutally killed that night. His ER doctor reports that every part of his body sustained bullets or blunt force trauma. Dzhokhar, bleeding to death, took refuge in a boat aptly named Slipaway 2. Although he was unarmed, law enforcement pummeled the boat with flash bangs and then pumped the boat full of ammo, later excused as “infectious fire.” Amongst other injuries, Dzhokhar suffered a gun shot wound that entered inside his mouth and exited through his neck, shattering his jaw, leaving permanent debility and disfigurement.
The 7-Eleven introduced the notion that the brothers had a silver gun. This was corroborated by the carjack victim, yet we learned that the brothers did not commit the robbery. Yet, the theory remains embedded in the Public's mind the brothers killed Collier because they needed another gun. In hindsight, the 7 minute shootout at Laurel & Dexter in Watertown seemed to make sense of this desperate need for weaponry. However, Collier's gun was not stolen and the brothers could not have anticipated the shootout in Watertown. Only one handgun was said to have been found in Watertown attributed to the brothers, a Ruger, and the color has not been made public.
Finally, the carjacking victim is said to have attended Northeastern University and lives in Cambridge, both with diverse foreign populations. The Arabic language is distinctly different sounding than Russian but the carjack victim identified the men as Middle Eastern after spending either 30 or up to 90 minutes with them. He said the jackers were both 5’7” and both armed. Tamerlan was 6’1” and Dzhokhar, 5’10”. The stolen car is said to have led law enforcement to the “bombers” who shot Collier. The brothers each owned a car of their own--stealing a car would have only drawn more unwelcome law enforcement attention to them if they were attempting to leave town after Thursday's 5PM press conference showing their photos.
In fact, it remains an enigma as to how both the carjack vehicle and Dzhokhar’s green Honda ended up on the same street in Watertown. If the brothers were not involved in these three crimes, is it possible they simply happened to be in Watertown in Dzhokhar’s Honda and were ambushed by law enforcement?
Police scanner broadcasts, video and audio recordings by civilians at Watertown suggest a lot more was underfoot that night than the Public have been told. There were several locations with gun battles and car chases. There were multiple arrests, injuries and deaths, including a man arrested on the ground yelling “It’s a set up” in Russian at a location other than where the brothers were said to have been. There was a man wearing a suicide vest that required three robots to disarm. No clear video exists that reveals the identities of any of the shooters or persons lighting fireworks or throwing flash bangs or “bombs” that night. It is all speculation, based on scanner transcripts, and the law enforcement reports and interviews are conflicting.
Residents were told to shelter in place and to turn off their phones. Streets were blocked off and the media were forced to move back from view. Tamerlan was brutally killed that night. His ER doctor reports that every part of his body sustained bullets or blunt force trauma. Dzhokhar, bleeding to death, took refuge in a boat aptly named Slipaway 2. Although he was unarmed, law enforcement pummeled the boat with flash bangs and then pumped the boat full of ammo, later excused as “infectious fire.” Amongst other injuries, Dzhokhar suffered a gun shot wound that entered inside his mouth and exited through his neck, shattering his jaw, leaving permanent debility and disfigurement.
Capture ends the Terror!
9,000 law enforcement personnel, including National Guard,
ATF, and FBI eventually were deployed en masse against the threat to American lives these two young men represented during the alleged crime spree.
Immediately upon Dzhokhar's arrest, officials announced, “Captured!
The hunt is over. The search is done. The terror is over. Justice has won!”
U.S. Attorney, Carmen Ortiz has determined events in Watertown beyond the Laurel Street 7 minute gun-battle are irrelevant to Dzhokhar’s case. Something clearly lurks untold in the multiple events that unfolded that night. Why would the government chose to ignore the larger scope of engagements in Watertown? Why was it presumed the terror was over the moment Tamerlan was killed and Dzhokhar captured?
No evidence of bomb making materials have been found in the brothers homes or cars. Experts say it is impossible for amateurs to have built the pressure cooker bombs with that level of sophistication.
U.S. Attorney, Carmen Ortiz has determined events in Watertown beyond the Laurel Street 7 minute gun-battle are irrelevant to Dzhokhar’s case. Something clearly lurks untold in the multiple events that unfolded that night. Why would the government chose to ignore the larger scope of engagements in Watertown? Why was it presumed the terror was over the moment Tamerlan was killed and Dzhokhar captured?
No evidence of bomb making materials have been found in the brothers homes or cars. Experts say it is impossible for amateurs to have built the pressure cooker bombs with that level of sophistication.
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