Unfortunate coincidence? 'TERRORISTA #1' Vanity plates

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New Bedford men arrested in Tsarnaev case own BMW with 'Terrorista #1' plate

NEW BEDFORD — Two college-age men from Kazakhstan arrested on immigration violations in a city apartment complex last weekend own the BMW sporting a "TERRORISTA #1" vanity plate, according to one of their fathers.

Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who socialized at the apartment, tweeted photos of the car a month before the April 15 attacks.

The two men arrested are Dias Kadyrbayev, 19, and Azamat Tazhayakov, 20, according to Kazakh media outlets and a source close to the investigation.

The father of one of the men — both of whom are from Kazakhstan — has complained on a Kazakh news website and TV station that the only possible reason his son could have been detained by U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement was because he missed too many UMass Dartmouth classes.

It was through the Kazakhstani men that investigators learned of the possible whereabouts of Tamerlan Tsarnaev's laptop and authorities have been searching the New Bedford landfill for the past three days, the police sources told ABC News. And, the sources said, agents found a cell phone believed to belong to Tamerlan Tsarnaev's in the New Bedford apartment.

One of the New Bedford men drove a BMW with a vanity plate that read "TERRORISTA #1" on the front, which his father told reporters was an unfortunate joke gift from some friends in Spain.

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New Bedford men arrested in Tsarnaev case own BMW with 'Terrorista #1' plate | SouthCoastToday.com

Two people seen in a photo with suspected Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in New York's famed Times Square are being held by authorities on administrative immigration violations.

I'm not sure how a vanity plate saying TERRORISTA #1 could be seen as a joke to be honest.