A former Puerto Rico police officer has been sentenced to one year in prison after pleading guilty to making a false statement to the FBI in a fatal beating case.
Miguel Negron Vazquez admitted to falsely telling the FBI that two other police officers never approached or interacted with a 19-year-old man who was beat to death in 2008.
Those two officers later pleaded guilty to unnecessarily hitting Jose Luis Irizarry. A total of six police officers have pleaded guilty in the case and two are waiting to be sentenced.
U.S. Attorney Rosa Emilia Rodriguez said Negron was sentenced on Friday.
Puerto Rico's police department is undergoing a 10-year federally mandated reform after U.S. prosecutors accused officers of illegal killings, civil rights violations and corruption.
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