AUGUSTA, Maine — A New York City man wanted in connection with an Augusta homicide late last year has been arrested, according to Maine State Police.
Aubrey Armstrong, 26, was taken into custody last week inside a home in Queens, New York, Maine Department of Public Safety spokesman Stephen McCausland said Tuesday in a news release.
Armstrong appeared in a New York courtroom on a fugitive from justice charge Monday.
He is the fourth person charged in connection with the death of Joseph Marceau, 31, of Augusta, who was killed inside an apartment on Washington Street on Nov. 23, 2015, in a drug-related homicide, McCausland said.
Armstrong, Damik Davis, 25, of Queens, New York, and Zina Marie Fritze, 27, and her boyfriend, Michael Sean McQuade, 45, both of Augusta were indicted in January by a Kennebec County grand jury on charges of intentional or knowing or depraved indifference murder, felony murder and robbery, according to a previously published report.
Fritze and McQuade pleaded not guilty to the charges on Jan. 26 at the Augusta Judicial Center. Three days later Fritze was found hanging by a bedsheet in her cell by correction officers at the Kennebec County Jail, according to a previously published report. She died on the way to the hospital.
Davis and McQuade are being held without bail.
Armstrong is expected to be arraigned in Maine after his extradition from New York is ordered.
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