There's no place like home - unless that's where you run after being charged with stabbing a man to death

Boston Police report nabbing a Mattapan native who was wanted in New York on murder charges.

Chivona Hughes, 32, was arrested in her old haunts near Blue Hill Avenue in Mattapan on Tuesday afternoon, police say.

Police in New York had been hunting Hughes for a Sept. 21 murder in Brooklyn. Boston Police report she allegedly stabbed her victim 75 times in the chest and head.

Working closely with NYPD Detectives, The BPD Fugitive Unit commenced an investigation into her whereabouts. During the second day of the investigation Detectives were able to locate Hughes in the area of Blue Hill Avenue in Mattapan. Hughes, who initially gave investigators several false names, was taken into custody and charged with being a Fugitive from Justice.

Hughes was no stranger to violence in Boston; in 2002, she was charged as an accessory after the fact to murder. Hughes was driving some people back from an Uphams Corner pot-buying expedition in her minivan when they noticed somebody with whom one of her riders had a beef - a beef big enough to open door and fire five shots into the guy, killing him. In a ruling on the shooter's first-degree murder conviction, the Supreme Judicial Court noted:

Hughes headed back to Mattapan and dropped off some of the occupants of the van at their homes. Shortly thereafter, the group met at Reid's home [Reid was one of the men in the minivan]. Reid gave Hughes a bottle of window cleaner and instructed her to "wipe off the van." Reid told her that she would "be okay if [she] didn't say anything." In response to a question posed by Reid, the defendant remarked, "We got him." Hughes wiped down the van and left in it. She picked up two "crackheads" and then was pulled over, at about 3:30 A. M., by police officers on Evelyn Street in Mattapan. The officers took Hughes and the other two individuals back to a police station for questioning. Initially, Hughes lied to police because she "was scared for [her] life."

Innocent, etc.