16 Former Antidrug Police Guilty in Raid
Sixteen former members of an elite antidrug force were sentenced to 25 years in prison for leading a bloody raid on a Guatemalan village last year. All were found guilty of using their position of authority to commit murder when they ordered or participated in the storming of Chocon.
During the raid, authorities shot and killed two locals and held most of the rest of the town hostage for two days. Agents left after making three arrests -- even though house-to-house searches failed to result in a single drug seizure.
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