WILKES-BARRE, Pa. — Three former police officers are set to go on trial on charges they obstructed the investigation into the fatal beating of an illegal Mexican immigrant.
Former Shenandoah police Chief Matthew Nestor and two other former officers will stand trial in federal court in Wilkes-Barre on Monday.
Prosecutors say Nestor, William Moyer, and Jason Hayes orchestrated a cover-up that protected high school football players involved in the July 2008 death of 25-year-old Luis Ramirez.
Ramirez died after an altercation with a group of teenage athletes. Two suspects were convicted in October of a federal hate crime for beating and kicking Ramirez. They face a maximum of life in prison when they’re sentenced later this month.
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