Italian officers arrested for lockdown abuses, other crimes

MILAN (AP) — Seven Carabinieri officers have been arrested in northern Italy for allegedly helping drug dealers evade the country’s coronavirus lockdown to obtain supplies and for alleged abuses of power such as torturing suspects. In an unprecedented action, prosecutors in the northern city of Piacenza, closed down and sequestered the Carabinieri barracks where the accused officers operated. The officers are accused of signing off on declarations that made it appear the drug dealers