Shenandoah Pa. Police Federally Charged With Cover Up In Mexican Beating Death

SHENANDOAH, Pa. (AP) -- After taking part in a fight that left a Mexican immigrant mortally wounded on the street, teenagers Brandon Piekarsky and Derrick Donchak fled. They didn't get very far before running into two police officers responding to a 911 call about the assault. These were no ordinary officers. Patrolman Jason Hayes dated Piekarsky's mother, and Lt. William Moyer's son played with Piekarsky on the high school football team. Their commanding officer, Chief Matthew Nestor, was a friend of Piekarsky's mother and even vacationed with her. Rather than place the popular white football players under arrest, the officers let them go - beginning a cover-up in their racially tense coal town, federal prosecutors allege.

The Department of Justice said Tuesday that Hayes, Moyer and Nestor have been indicted on obstruction charges for trying to "impede, obstruct and influence the investigation" into the July 2008 beating death of Luis Ramirez by tampering with evidence and witnesses or lying to the FBI. The former athletes, who were acquitted of the most serious state charges against them in May, are charged with a federal hate crime for attacking Ramirez in a park as they headed home from a party, the Department of Justice said.

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• Shenandoah
• police
• brandon piekarsky
• derrick donchak
• jason hayes
• william moyer
• matthew nestor
• luis ramirez
• jamie gennarini
• police brutality

[Misamigos11]

@462production those 2 kids are gonna be locked up with a lot of mexicans we ll see if they talk to them the same way they did to this poor kid .... lol

[supernadeznugga]

ROTTTTT!!!!! in jail!!!!! u fukers!!!!! i knew ya time would come ya killed that kid in 2004 n thought god woud not get you fukz back...what goes around comes around have fun in the FEDZ!!!LOL

[supernadeznugga]

@TheBimmerzrule yup and said he killed hiself wit a belt when he a boot improntin his back smhhhh wow r.i.p

[TheBimmerzrule]

@supernadeznugga You must be talkin about how they did Vega. They definitely gonna get it in jail.

[fccjbiology]

good, equal justice finally. no one is above the law. I hope you get a beating when you go to prison, I hope BOP send you to a Mexican prison to get dealt with. you must learn that we are all Gods people

[hihater190]

I believe cover ups happen all the time.. We need the truth to come

[fleiva30]

racism still exist in the great US of A.. perfect example!!

[fleiva30]

KKK TOWN..!!

[fleiva30]

KKK TOWN..!!