YOUNGSTOWN — Bond remained at $1 million as Camilo Sotolongo-Barreto, 38, of Pittsburgh, was arraigned Tuesday on a murder charge in the April 4 stabbing death of Nester Diaz, 37, in the 3700 block of Tippecanoe Road on Youngstown’s West Side.

His attorney, Tony Meranto, pleaded not guilty on Sotolongo-Barreto’s behalf before Mahoning County Common Pleas Court Judge Maureen Sweeney. Meranto told Sweeney that Sotolongo-Barretto will need an interpreter throughout the case.

If Sotolongo-Barreto is convicted on the murder charge, he could get a life prison sentence. Sotolongo-Barreto, was indicted last month on the single charge. He has been in the Mahoning County jail since June 5.

A police report in June stated that Sotolongo-Barreto was transported by a Youngstown police officer from the Allegheny County, Pa., jail in Pittsburgh to Youngstown on June 5 on a warrant from Youngstown Municipal Court.

After he arrived in Youngstown, he was turned over to a police detective at the Youngstown Police Department and later taken to the county jail.

An April Youngstown police news release stated that “Camilo Barreto” was the suspect in the stabbing death of Diaz and that Barreto was in the Allegheny County jail.

The release stated that Diaz was stabbed in the abdomen in the 3700 block of Tippecanoe Road just before 8 p.m. April 4. Officers and ambulance personnel administered aid, but Diaz was pronounced dead. Officers learned that Barreto was the suspect in the killing and that the stabbing resulted from a property dispute, according to a police report.

Sotolongo-Barreto was tracked to the Pittsburgh area, and Youngstown police requested assistance from the Baldwin Borough Police Department, which took Barreto into custody without incident, a news release states.

Youngstown police said earlier that the suspect in the killing used to live with the victim. After the suspect showed up at the victim’s home, the two argued, leading to the stabbing. The suspect then fled, police said.