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Wife of 'Boston bomber' was arrested for shoplifting from clothes store



Katherine Russell, the widow of suspected Boston bomber Tamerlan Tsraneav, has a criminal record and is a confessed shoplifter, MailOnline can reveal.


A police report obtained by MailOnline reveals that the 25-year-old Islamic convert was arrested in 2007 for stealing $67 worth of clothing from an Old Navy store in Warwick, Rhode Island.

And in an intriguing twist, Russell, who was 18 at the time, told officers she was married though she was living at parent’s North Kingstown home and did not meet Tsranaev until some two years later.

The startling revelation of this tawdry incident raises fresh questions over the past and character of the 'all-American girl' 'brainwashed' according to some, by her fanatic husband.



Record: It has emerged that Katherine Russell, the widow of Tamerlan Tsarnaev, was arrested for shoplifting from a clothes store in Rhode Island when she was a teenager

Katherine was arrested along with an unnamed female minor on 26 June 2007. Then, the police report states, she was 'skinny' with hazel eyes and red or auburn hair – now firmly concealed by the Hijab. She is described as unemployed and married.

Old Navy store security guard Linda Lewis stopped the girls having watched Katherine and her companion enter the store, select several items and put them in their handbags.


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In 2011 Tamerlan’s mother, Zubeidat was charged with stealing several designer dresses worth $1600 from a store in suburban Natick.

Katherine’s foray was hardly on the same scale. She took five items valuing $67; her friend took three with a total item of $125.






Family: Russell was 18 when she was arrested - before her future mother-in-law, Zubeidat Tsarnaeva, right, was arrested for allegedly stealing $1,600 worth of goods from a different clothing store






Scene: She was allegedly caught stealing $67 worth of goods from this store in Warwick, Rhode Island

She was placed in handcuffs and taken to Warwick Police Department.

According to the store Loss Prevention Agent Lewis: ‘They admitted to shoplifting the items and handed the over without further incident.’

Katherine was summonsed to appear at Kent County Courthouse where her charge was dismissed on paying a $200 fine and doing community service.

That fall Katherine enrolled in a Communications course at Suffolk University, Boston, an act that led to her meeting Tsranaev in a nightclub and the relationship that would ultimately derail her college dreams completely.

The revelation comes after it emerged that Tsarnaev displayed a disturbing pattern of verbal abuse and violence toward women, including his wife, according to those who knew him.






Widow: Russell, the wife of Tamerlan Tsarnaev, leaves her family home with her lawyer Tuesday morning



Low profile: She reportedly spoke with investigators for the first time since the bombings on Tuesday







Close friends of his wife claimed that Tsarnaev, 26, was combative, angry and controlling.


Russell spoke to federal authorities for the first time on Tuesday, after she was spotted leaving her Rhode Island family home with her lawyer and three federal investigators. She returned home nearly four hours later with her mother.

MESSAGE FROM SUSPECT'S WIDOW



Katherine Russell's lawyers released this statement on Tuesday morning at her request:


'As you know from news reports, Katie married her husband in June of 2010. Since then, she has been living in Cambridge, raising her child and working long hours, caring for people in their homes who are unable to care for themselves.


'Katie grew up in Rhode Island and has always remained close to her parents and sisters here, as well as her extended family.


'She is fortunate to have the support of her loving family now, as they, too, struggle to come to terms with these events and the deep sorrow we all feel following the events of last week.


'Meanwhile, she is doing everything she can to assist with the investigation.

'The injuries and loss of life - to people who came to celebrate a race and a holiday - has caused profound distress and sorrow to Katie and her family.


'The reports of involvement by her husband and brother-in-law came as an absolute shock to them all.


'As a mother, a sister, a daughter, a wife, Katie deeply mourns the pain and loss to innocent victims - students, law enforcement, families and our community. In the aftermath of this tragedy, she, her daughter and her family are trying to come to terms with these events.'

Afterwards, her lawyers released a statement at her request that claimed she has been 'doing everything she can to assist with the investigation.'

'The injuries and loss of life - to people who came to celebrate a race and a holiday - has caused profound distress and sorrow to Katie and her family,' the statement read. 'The reports of involvement by her husband and brother-in-law came as an absolute shock to them all.'

Three of Russell's friends told National Public Radio's Laura Sullivan that Tsarnaev would often insult Russell and call her names, such as 'slut' and 'prostitute.'

He was known to fly into into fits of rage where he would throw objects, including furniture, friends said.

Russell's lawyer, Amato DeLuca, said she was a student at Suffolk University when she was introduced to Tsarnaev at a nightclub. He didn't specify the exact date that they met, though it's believed to be sometime during 2009.


Tsarnaev was seeing another woman at the time, he said.

'They went out for a while, and then they stopped and then they went out again,' DeLuca said.


It's possible the other woman that Tsarnaev was apparently dating was 25-year-old Nadine Ascencao of Brookline, Mass.

Tsarnaev was arrested in July 2009 for allegedly slapping Ascencao, according to court records.


Ascencao was 'crying hysterically' and called 911 to report that she was 'beat up by her boyfriend,' Cambridge Police Officer Angela Pereira wrote in the arrest report.

Tsarnaev told Pereira and another officer that his girlfriend 'was yelling at him because of another girl.'

Asked whether he had hit Ascencao, Tsarnaev stated, 'Yes, I slapped her.' He specifically stated that he struck the left side of her face.

Eleven months later, Tsarnaev was apparently no longer dating Aschencao. He had persuaded Russell to convert from Christianity to Islam and the couple married on June 21, 2010.

Around the same time, Russell became pregnant with Tsarnaev's baby. She dropped out of school in her senior year and reportedly began pulling away from her friends and family.








Rage: Tsarnaev was known to fly into into fits of rage where he would throw objects, including furniture





Champ: In this Feb. 17, 2010, photo, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, left, accepts the trophy for winning the 2010 New England Golden Gloves Championship from Dr. Joseph Downes, right

Mary Silberman, whose apartment backs up to Tsarnaev's Cambridge home, said she often heard loud arguments late at night that mostly consisted of a woman's voice yelling at a man.

'It wasn't enough to call the police,' Silberman told Reuters. 'It didn't sound like anyone was in physical danger.'

But the shouting was often loud enough to keep her awake at night. She could also hear the couple's daughter, Zahara, now three years old, wailing at night and she often wondered why the mother wasn't responding, she said.


As the girl grew into a toddler, Silberman said she would see Zahara staring out the window.


Since Tsarnaev's death, Russell has been staying with her family in North Kingstown, Rhode Island.

Her lawyer, Amato DeLuca, told CNN on Monday that the 24-year-old is 'very distraught' and 'cries a lot.'

Regarding the bomb plot, DeLuca said, 'She knew nothing about it at any time.'

'The whole family is a mess, to put it bluntly,' he said. 'They're very distraught. They're upset. Their lives have been unalterably changed. They're upset because of what happened, the people that were injured, that were killed. It's an awful, terrible thing.'







Timeline: Sometime around 2008, Tsarnaev's erratic and violent behavior escalated as he stopped smoking and drinking and suddenly became heavily involved in Islam



Fighting: Mary Silberman, whose apartment backs up to Tsarnaev's Cambridge home, said she often heard loud arguments late at night that mostly consisted of a woman's voice yelling at a man

Russell works 70 to 80 hours a week as a home health aide, according to family members. Tsarnaev was unemployed.


Judith Russell, the 24-year-old's mother, read an emotional statement to the media outside the timber-framed detached family home.




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‘Our daughter has lost her husband today, the father of her child,' she said. 'We cannot begin to comprehend how this horrible tragedy occurred. Our hearts are sickened by the knowledge of the horror he has inflicted.’

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