Tatiana Gruzdeva, the girlfriend of an alleged accomplice to Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev, was arrested in Florida.
She is the former girlfriend to Ibragim Todashev, who was shot and killed by the FBI earlier this year after he implicated himself and Tsnarnaev in a 2011 triple murder in Waltham, Mass.
The Department of Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested Gruzdeva, reported Boston Magazine on Tuesday. She said she is being held in solitary confinement.
It is unclear when she was detained.
Gruzdeva said she was being deported because of an interview with Boston Magazine.
They said it’s because of interview,” she said. “I’m in the room by myself.”
The 19-year-old woman gave an interview to the magazine in September, telling of how she was held in solitary confinement and details about her boyfriend’s death.
“They asked me again and again about Ibragim and all this stuff. They asked me, ‘Can you tell us when he will do something?’ I said, ‘No! I can’t!’ Because he wasn’t doing anything, and I didn’t know anything.” Gruzdeva told Boston magazine in the September interview. “And they said, ‘Oh, really? So why don’t we call immigration.’”
Gruzdeva spoke with the Boston Globe soon after the interview, saying she would not talk to the media anymore.
“I don’t want to have any problem with the FBI. I already had a lot. … It was the worst time in all my life,” Gruzdeva said. “I just don’t want to have more problem.”
