3 charged with murder in deadly nightclub stabbing

PLAINFIELD, N.J. (AP) — Three people have been charged with murder and numerous other counts stemming from a stabbing outside a Plainfield nightclub last month that left a man dead and three others injured.

The Union County Prosecutors office announced the charges Thursday. An office spokesman said the three Plainfield residents — Jose Rivera Nelson Martinez, 20, Rudy Gonzalez Segovia, 22, and Arquimidis Jossue Alvarado Arias, 29 — were all identified as suspects shortly after the Feb. 23 stabbing occurred at the Chez Maree nightclub.

Segovia was arrested without incident at his Plainfield home earlier this month, while Arias and Martinez were separately apprehended a week later in Montgomery County, Maryland, and Washington. A judge has since ordered that Segovia be detained until his trial, while Martinez was extradited back to New Jersey on Monday to await a detention hearing. Arias continues to await extradition, and it's not clear if any of the three have retained attorneys.

Besides the murder counts, all three are also charged with three counts of attempted murder and related weapons offenses.

Olvin Benitez Lopez, 30, of Plainfield, was pronounced dead at the scene of the stabbing, while three other men injured in the altercation were treated at a hosp(ital. Authorities have not said what sparked the stabbing or which suspect is accused of inflicting Lopez's fatal injuries.