The teen accused of lying to authorities during the Boston bombing investigation has now been released from his pre-trial.
19-year-old Robel Phillipos, who attended the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth with bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, is on trial for lying to police about going into Tsarnaev's dorm room three days post-attack.
According to Reuters, Phillipos is out on $100,000 bail, which was put up by a third party who apparently sold some property to free the teen from the court room.
Phillipos has been charged with utilization of a weapon of mass destruction. If he is found guilty, he could face the death penalty.
He awaits his upcoming trial date, temporarily set for May 17.
While he is out, Phillipos will be on house arrest under the supervision of his mother, and has been ordered to wear a GPS bracelet, as U.S. Magistrate Judge Marianne Bowler ruled Monday.
Phillipos is a marketing major at UMass Dartmouth, with a minor in sociology. He is expected to graduate in 2015.
The Tsarnaev brothers have been accused of planning and carrying out bombings at the Boston Marathon using pressure cookers stuffed with explosives, nails and pieces of metal shards. The bombings killed three people and injured upwards of 260 at the finish line.
The teen is one of a few suspected accomplices to the bombings, including Tamerlan Tsarnaev's widow, Katherine Russell.
Some of Dzhokhar's peers allegedly hid evidence from police, going into the younger Tsarnaev's dorm room and keeping pieces of the pressure cooker bomb covert.
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