Bridgeport Police Arrest Suspect in 2012 Homicide
#Bridgeport, Conn. (Dec. 16, 2014) – A 53-year-old man was extradited Tuesday from Florida in connection with a fatal stabbing that occurred in 2012 in the city’s East Side. Mario Chavez, formerly of Washington Avenue , was detained this month in Miami on a fugitive from justice warrant stemming from the fatal stabbing of 23-year-old Francisco Barbosa-Vega in the 500 block of Arctic Street. According to witnesses, Barbosa-Vega intervened in a fight between two individuals on May 27, 2012, at that location and was stabbed in the chest. Lt. Christopher Lamaine conducted the investigation. Witnesses told police that Barbosa-Vega was on the porch of a house in the 500 block of Arctic Street when two males got out of…



