Ailiana Tsarnaeva turned herself into the Boston courts on Wednesday to ask a judge to remove a warrant issued after she failed to appear on a charge of misleading police, the Associated Press reported.
The 23-year-old, who is the sister of alleged Boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, was charged in a counterfeiting investigation where she allegedly took part in the passing of a fake $100 bill to a restaurant in the South Bay Mall in Boston of 2010. Although Tsaernaeva did not pass the bill herself, but she did drive the people who paid the tab to the train station, and when questioned by police was "uncooperative".
In an official investigation report, Boston Police Detective Robert J. Kenney wrote, "I pointed out how unbelievable the story was," the Boston Herald reported.
A spokesman for the Suffolk District Attorney Dan Conley, Jake Wark, said that Tsarnaeva was not accused of passing the bill, but she knew the members of the group and "lied about certain salient facts during the investigation," according to the AP.
Tsarnaeva, who now lives in New Jersey after moving from Cambridge, did not appear in court in February 2011 in regards to the charges leading the the default warrant for her arrest, the AP reported.
A Boston judge agreed to remove the warrant and released Tsarnaeva on Wednesday on a $1,500 personal recognizance which she does not have to immediately pay unless she does not return on her scheduled appearance on Dec. 4, the AP reported.
Another condition of her release is that she is required to report to Massachusetts probation officials once a week, although she now lives in New Jersey, according to the AP.
Tsarnaeva's lawyer, George Gormley said in court that "this is a voluntary surrender appearance to get back in good standing with the court with a view toward defending this case. My client is practically indigent. She has no money, the bail of $1,500 might as well be $15,000. She's unlikely to flee. She has a young child. She's pregnant now," according to the Herald.
Gormley believes that she has provided the information she has to the authorities and has no further connection with the passage of the counterfeit bill, according to the AP
