Official: FBI interviewed older suspect in 2011

Published April 20, 2013 12:16am ET



WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal law enforcement official says the FBI interviewed the older Boston Marathon bombing suspect at the request of a foreign government in 2011 and that nothing derogatory was found.

The official says the FBI shared its information with the foreign government. The official did not say what country made the request about Tamerlan Tsarnaev or why.

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