Two American teenagers who were classmates at a California high school spent a second night in a Rome jail on Saturday, after they were interrogated by a magistrate in Rome. They had been arrested on suspicion of involvement in the murder of an Italian policeman.<\/p>\n
Italian authorities identified the two as Gabriel Christian Natale-Hjorth, 18, and Finnegan Lee Elder, 19 , who were involved in a drug deal that went wrong.<\/p>\n
In the detention order, Elder is described as repeatedly stabbing the 35-year-old officer,Cerciello Rega, who had just returned to duty a few days earlier from his honeymoon.<\/p>\n
Investigators said Cerciello Rega, along with another Carabinieri officer, were both in plainclothes when they confronted the Americans in the wake of a drug deal gone wrong.<\/p>\n
Officers found a large knife hidden in the false ceiling of their hotel room. Under Italian law, persons participating in a killing, but who didn’t actually carry out the slaying itself, risk being charged with murder. Like all European Union countries, Italy doesn’t have the death penalty.<\/p>\n
Police said they were apparently vacationing in the Italian capital without family members.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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