Mexican authorities have lau
The missing trio - all from Naples - were last seen on 31 January in Tecalitlán, in the western state of Jalisco.
The state's governor said the officers had confessed to handing the Italians over to a local criminal gang.
The police had allegedly arrested them at a petrol station beforehand.
The son of one of the disappeared earlier told Italian radio that the men had been "sold to a gang for 43 euros" ($53; £38), but regional officials said they could not confirm that information.
Dangerous territory
It is not entirely clear what Raffaele Russo, 60, his 25-year-old son Antonio, and his nephew, Vincenzo Cimmino, 29, were doing in the agricultural town of Tecalitlán. The area is controlled by the Jalisco New Generation cartel, one of Mexico's most powerful criminal gangs.
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