Police have arrested a suspect in a stabbing outside the Dockside Bar in New London on Saint Patrick's Day.
Troy Murallo Bergeson, 34, of New London, was arrested Monday.
Police said two groups of people who had been drinking at the bar got into an argument and went outside, where the argument escalated into a fight and a man who tired to intervene was stabbed.
Officers responded to the bar at 36 Bank Street around 11:40 p.m. that Friday night to investigate the stabbing.
The victim was taken to Lawrence & Memorial Hospital to be treated for a stab wound in his lower back.
The people involved in the fight were gone when police arrived and officers determined they knew each other and this was not a random incident.
Bergeson was charged with first-degree assault and he is being held on probation violation charges.
Local
Bond was set at $150,000.
