Eight ‘bogus policemen’ kidnapped and tortured cocaine traffickers

A GANG of police impersonators from the Dominican Republic abducted and tortured cocaine traffickers, forcing them to hand over multi-million-dollar stashes by holding their families hostage or threatening to squeeze their testicles with pliers, US authorities said.

An indictment unsealed in federal court in Brooklyn charged eight men with robbery conspiracy, drug dealing and an array of other crimes.

Since the spring of 2003, the gang injured about 100 people while committing 100 holdups targeting large-scale traffickers in New York, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Florida, investigators said.