Ailina Tsarnaeva, the sister of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, was released from a Boston courtroom after appearing briefly in a counterfeiting investigation on Wednesday.
The 23-year-old woman was in South Boston court to ask a judge to remove a warrant issued after she failed to appear on a charge of misleading a Boston police detective investigating the recovery of a counterfeit bill, reports CBS News.
Prosecutors accuse her of picking up a person who passed counterfeit money at the South Bay Mall in Boston in 2010 but was uncooperative when questioned about it, states a Suffolk district attorney's office spokesman. The spokesman says she did not show up for a court date after her arraignment.
Tsarnaeva's lawyer said that she is living in New Jersey and has agreed to check in with the Massachusetts probation office every week.
Her brother has pleaded not guilty to charges stemming from the April 15 explosions that killed three people and injured more than 260. The 20-year-old suspected terrorist is accused of planting two homemade bombs at the finish line of the Boston Marathon that killed three people and wounded 260 others on April 15. He was found hiding in a boat on April 19 in Watertown following a statewide manhunt and shootout with police that left his brother and suspected accomplice, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, dead.
Tsarnaev has pleaded not guilty to 30 counts of a federal indictment, including using a weapon of mass destruction resulting in death and 16 other charges that carry the possibility of capital punishment, reports USA Today.
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