Mexican police force held in journalist's disappearance

Mexican police force held in journalist's disappearance

| January 6, 2015 | Updated: January 6, 2015 12:47pm

VERACRUZ, Mexico (AP) — State prosecutors detained a town's police force Tuesday following the disappearance of a journalist in the southern state of Veracruz.

Thirty-six members of the Medellin de Bravo police department were brought in to give statements, according to a statement from the Veracruz state prosecutor's office. Authorities detained three police officers there Monday.

Prosecutors said the investigation is in an advanced stage and one of the lines of investigation is looking at the social activism of journalist Moises Sanchez Cerezo, some of which was aimed at Medellin Mayor Omar Cruz.

Sanchez's brother Juan Carlos Sanchez said Monday that his brother had been threatened by Cruz. Cruz denied any involvement at a news conference Monday.

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