Twenty-four-year-old Najibullah Zazi of Arapahoe County is charged with lying to investigators. FBI agents say Zazi lied about the origin of bomb-making instructions found in a laptop computer.

A spokeswoman for his attorneys says Zazi met Wednesday with attorney Arthur Folsom and others on the defense team.

Zazi was arrested Saturday along with his 53-year-old father, Mohammed Wali Zazi. Thirty-seven-year-old Ahmad Wais Afzali was arrested in New York, where he is an imam at a mosque in Queens. The elder Zazi and Afzali both face charges of lying to investigators about phone calls between Colorado and New York.

The Zazis appeared in court on Monday to be advised of the charges against them.

The judge ruled that the elder Zazi would soon be released from custody as soon as his home was set up for electronic monitoring.

Both were still in custody on Wednesday.

The charge of lying to federal investigators carries a maximum of eight years in prison and a $250,000 fine.

Mohammed Zazi has also been subpoenaed to testify before a grand jury in New York.

While he is only being held on charges of lying to investigators in a terrorism investigation, a grand jury could hear evidence on more serious charges.

It's unclear who else might be called to testify before a grand jury or whether Najibullah Zazi could be called too.

According to NBC News, federal agents say the men were linked to a terror plot targeting New York City which aimed at attacking public places like sports arenas or train stations.

Authorities say they do not know the exact time or location of the attack.

According to an arrest affidavit released Saturday night, Najibullah Zazi drove a rental car from Colorado on Sept. 9, arriving in New York on Sept. 10. Federal agents searched the rental car the following day and say they found Najibullah Zazi's laptop computer, which contained a "jpeg image of nine-pages of handwritten notes." The notes contained "formulations and instructions regarding the manufacture and handling of initiating explosives, main explosives charges, explosives detonators and components of a fuzing system."

After Najibullah Zazi's trip, investigators searched several New York apartments in connection to his visit. Investigators tell NBC News during the searches of four apartments they found pictures and references to public places in New York. Officials also seized nine backpacks, according to NBC News.

Najibullah Zazi flew back to Colorado and learned about the raids in New York after friends called him and shortly before his own apartment was searched. He has said he drove to New York in September to resolve issues with a coffee cart he owns in Manhattan.

Last week, Najibullah Zazi voluntarily met with authorities on three occasions. During those meetings, the younger Zazi told investigators he had never seen the document found on the laptop in the rental car and that he must have unintentionally downloaded the document as part of a religious book, which he says he later deleted because it contained talk of jihad.

Federal handwriting analysts say there were characteristics in common between the notes and with samples submitted by Najibullah Zazi, however the final conclusion had not yet been made.

The affidavit also says the document was sent between three e-mail accounts in early Dec. 2008. The FBI believes Najibullah Zazi had control over all three e-mail accounts because two of the accounts had the same nine-digit password, and the third had a six-digit password matching the first six digits of the nine-digit password.

Mohammed Zazi and Afzali are accused of lying to FBI agents about calls between Denver and New York. An affidavit accuses Afzali of lying about a call in which he told Najibullah Zazi that he had spoken with authorities.

Zazi's father is accused of lying when he told authorities he didn't know anyone by the name of Afzali. The FBI said it recorded a conversation between Mohammed Zazi and Afzali.