A Chico man has been arrested for the April 2010 stabbing of the president of the Chico State Associated Students.

Chico Police arrested 20-year-old Jorge Ceja Aguilar on Saturday for attempted murder, according to a Sunday report from Sgt. Scott Franssen.

Aguilar is alleged to have attacked Associated Students President Joseph Igbineweka on April 18, 2010, in an early morning incident on Warner Street near the university, Franssen said.

According to media reports at the time of the attack, the Nigerian-born Igbineweka was confronted by two men who made racial slurs, with one of them then attacking him and stabbing him four times. Police later concluded the incident was a hate crime.

Franssen said that in April 2010 Chico Police submitted the knife used in the attack to the California Department of Justice Crime Lab. The knife was examined and DNA evidence was located.

Last December Chico Police detectives were notified that the DNA belonged to Aguilar, Franssen said.

Det. Mark Hoffman, the case's lead investigator, obtained an arrest warrant for Aguilar, but Franssen said detectives searched for Aguilar and were not able to locate him, even though he was featured

in Butte County's “most wanted.”

Then, shortly after 10 p.m. Saturday, Aguilar – who had been staying out of the area for most of the time since April 2010 – turned himself in at the Chico Police Department, Franssen said.

Franssen said Aguilar was booked into the Butte County Jail on the warrant charging him with attempted murder.

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