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Suspect arrested in stabbing death
Comments 0 | Recommend 0EL RANCHITO - Cameron County sheriff's deputies have arrested a suspect in the Tuesday stabbing death of a 20-year-old man in what investigators are calling a "crime of passion."
Deputies located Efrain Puente, 30, of Brownsville about 1 a.m. Wednesday and arrested him on a charge of first degree murder, Sheriff Omar Lucio said.
Puente will be arraigned sometime this morning, Lucio said.
Investigators say the man attacked and stabbed 20-year-old Francisco Losoya at a home on Nicho Esparza Road in El Ranchito about 8 p.m. Tuesday, Lucio said.
Investigators say Puente arrived at the home, where Losoya was with Puente's estranged wife, Lucio said.
Losoya died en route to the hospital, Lucio said.
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