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Mark Garfinkel /AP Aliana Tsarnaeva, the 23-year-old sister of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and his deceased brother Tamerlan, was arrested in harassment of Harlem woman.

The sister of the suspected Boston Marathon bombers was arrested Wednesday afternoon on charges she threatened to bomb her boyfriend's ex-girlfriend.

Aliana Tsarnaev, 23, of North Bergen, N.J., the sister of Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, was charged with aggravated harassment.

The alleged victim, who lives in Harlem and has children with Tsarnaev’s boyfriend, told cops Tsarnaev called her Monday and made the threat as part of an ongoing feud, a police source told the Daily News.

“I have people who can go up there and put a bomb on you,” Tsarnaev allegedly told the victim, according to the source.

She was placed in custody at 2:30 p.m. after surrendering at the 30th Precinct stationhouse in Harlem, police said. The source said she was question, charged and given a desk appearance ticket.

AP Tamerlan Tsarnaev (left) and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev are accused of detonating homemade bombs near the finish line of the 2013 Boston Marathon. Tamerlan died after a police manhunt and Dzhokhar is awaiting trial.

The Tsarnaev brothers are accused of setting off two homemade bombs on April 15, 2013 near the finish line of the Boston Marathon killing three people, including an 8-year-old boy.

The explosives, made from pressure cookers, injured more than 260 people, including 16 who lost limbs.

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Medical workers aid injured people at the finish line of the Boston Marathon following an explosion in Boston on April 15, 2013.

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People on Newbury St. walk past Boston police officers, investigators and military personnel near scene of the Boston Marathon bombings.

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The brothers are also accused in the killing of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer in the aftermath of the bombings.

Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, was killed in a police shootout in a Boston suburb four days after the marathon bombing. His 21-year-old brother was captured after being wounded by police.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is awaiting trail in Boston Federal Court. He faces the death penalty if convicted.

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