New Bedford, MA police confirm to TPM that three people have been taken into custody for questioning by the FBI based on potential affiliation with Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the 19 year old suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing.
“FBI executed a federal search warrant this afternoon, two males and a female were taken into custody for questioning by them on the assumption that there was an affiliation with suspect number two,” Lieutenant Robert Richard told TPM by phone Friday evening.
The three were taken from “off-site housing [where it’s] not uncommon for U Mass students to reside,” Richard said.
Tsarnaev was a student at University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth.
FBI has not responded to inquries about whether they’re seeking accomplices to the two suspects.
UPDATE: This post initially said Tsarnaev was a student at UMass Amherst. He attended UMass Dartmouth.
