WILKES-BARRE, Pa. – Four Pennsylvania police officers have been led into a courtroom in handcuffs for arraignment on charges that they orchestrated a cover-up in the fatal beating of a Mexican immigrant.

A federal indictment announced Tuesday accuses Shenandoah Police Chief Matthew Nestor and three officers under his command of charges including witness tampering and lying to the FBI in the 2008 death ofLuis Ramirez.

The officers are awaiting their arraignment in a Wilkes-Barre  courtroom Tuesday.

The indictment also charges two former high school athletes with ahate crime for allegedly shouting racial epithets at Ramirez while they were beating him.   MORE>>>

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