SEATTLE – In a joint effort by the Manatee County Sheriff’s office in Florida and the Delaware State Police, a man linked to a 1996 murder was taken into custody in mid-August during a traffic stop near his home in Georgetown, Delaware, on a warrant for second degree murder with a weapon. The suspect, 72-year-old Stephen L. Ford, was then extradited back to Florida and booked into the Manatee County Jail last month.