Murder Suspect Seized By Fbi In Wilmington

August 09, 1989|By Mack Reed, Special to The Inquirer

WILMINGTON — FBI agents broke down a motel room door here yesterday to capture a 39- year-old Atlantic City man suspected in the May 30 stabbing death of another man outside an Atlantic City bar.

Agents from Wilmington and Baltimore swarmed into a room at the Budget Motor Lodge at 5:45 a.m. and arrested Joseph C. Lovett 3d, according to Joseph V. Corless, special agent in charge of the FBI in Delaware and Maryland.

Lovett, who Corless said is a former member of the Pagans motorcycle club's Atlantic County chapter, is wanted on murder charges in the death of Joseph George Saeger, 26, of Atlantic City, Coreless said. Saeger was stabbed to death during a fight outside Johnny Gibbons' Tavern in Atlantic City on May 30, Corless said.

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Lovett was arrested on a federal fugitive warrant and turned over to the Delaware State Police. He was ordered held without bail at Gander Hill Prison pending extradition to New Jersey, said Agent Jim Dearborn, an FBI spokesman in Baltimore.

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