Mexico: Veracruz ex-police get 60 years for disappearance

VERACRUZ, Mexico (AP) — Nine former police officers in Mexico’s Gulf coast state of Veracruz have been sentenced to 60 years in prison for forced disappearance.
Among them is a high-ranking official formerly with the Public Security Department in the state, where many people have gone missing over the years.
The case involves the illegal detention and disappearance of a man in June 2014 in the town of Chinameca. Prosecutors say he was also “presumably tortured.”
The man w