By
Daniel Bates In Boston, Massachusetts and Daily Mail Reporter
The two men who own a BMW with
the license plate ‘Terrorista #1’ and who are said to be friends with
the younger Boston bombing suspect were taken into custody again on
Saturday.
This time the two
foreign nationals were arrested over alleged immigration violations in
the Massachusetts town, New Bedford, where police say the surviving
suspect, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, may have once lived.
The
students, named by neighbours by their first names Azmat and Diaz,
drive a black BMW 330XI with the personalised plate and a sticker on the
back which reads: ‘F*** you, you f****** f****’.
Arrest: License Plate Allegedly Belonging to a friend of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's Car Reading 'Terrorista #1'
They are thought to be from Kazakhstan
and had not been seen since the bombings until Friday night when their
ground floor apartment in New Bedford, MA, was raided by a dozen FBI
agents at gunpoint.
One of their girlfriends was also arrested on Friday. All three are in their late teens or early 20s.
The three were subsequently released on Friday night before Saturday's arrest of the two men.
Their
apartment was raided because police say the younger Boston Marathon
bombing suspect, 19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, may have lived at their
address.
MailOnline has discovered another link - Dzhokhar Tweeted pictures of the car on his Twitter account J_tsar.
In
one picture the BMW is next to another dark coloured sports car with
the caption: ‘Place your bets’ as if they are about to race.
Two women and one man, both of whom appeared to
be college-aged, were apprehended for questioning from the Hidden Brook
Apartments on Carriage Drive in New Bedford
The three were apprehended after the FBI conducted a search warrant on an apartment at the complex
In
another a group of boys stand by both vehicles and a youth can be seen
making a gesture that looks like a gun towards the camera.
The three arrests took place at the Hidden Brook housing complex in New Bedford.
A
neighbour claimed that the men had said the BMW was stolen or that they
claimed they had rented it and were not paying the rental fee.
Inside the car was a receipt
from a Ralph Lauren store, a pair of Ray Ban sunglasses, a receipt from a
shipping company, a prescription, lots of crushed water bottles and a
number of parking tickets.
The neighbour told MailOnline that Azmat and Diaz were ‘nice boys’ who were light skinned, thin and short.
She said that they were students at the University of Massachusetts and had been living in the apartment for around a year.
She
said: ‘They used to have parties until three or four in the morning.
There would be drinking and dancing and the police would come. I didn’t
mind but they stayed up til late every now and then’.
Tweet: Dzhokar had tweeted pictures of himself with the car on his account under the name J_tsar
The
neighbour said that when the the police raided the apartment there were
armed officers on the tennis court out the back on a tennis court lying
down with their guns pointed towards the apartment.
The FBI later brought a U-Haul truck to the rear of the apartment but did not take anything away.
The
neighbour said that when the boys were led out she heard ‘scuffles’ and
that they were led away with their hands in zip ties.
The
neighbour said ‘I’ve not spoken to them since the bombings. They have
thick accents so I find it hard to understand them anyway.
Symbol: The BMW outside the housing complex on Saturday morning where the arrests took place hours before
‘They went away for a couple of weeks a few months ago but they did not say where. I don’t know if they went back to Kazakhstan.
Two
Russian speaking men in their early 20s later arrived at the apartment
and told reporters they were journalists from the Boston Globe.
They
then entered the apartment through an unlocked patio door. When asked
what they were doing they said: ‘We are friends of theirs. They are
talking, they are talking’ and closed the door.
When MailOnline rang the City desk of the Boston Globe, a man said: ‘We’re very busy right now. Consider us informed’.
The apartment complex is about 10 minutes from the Dartmouth campus, where Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, was a student
Arrested: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, was taken into custody late Friday in connection with the Boston Marathon bombings
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