Mass. man pleads guilty to conspiracy in kidnap-murder case

NEW YORK – A former Massachusetts Veterans Administration police chief has pleaded guilty to conspiracy in a kidnap-murder case linked to the prosecution of a cannibalism case against a New York City police officer, CBS affiliate WSHM reports.

Meltz admitted that he assisted in the planned kidnapping of adult relatives of a New Jersey man charged in the case as well as another adult woman and said he gave advice to a New York man about how to carry out a kidnapping.

This comes less than a year after former New York City police officer Gilberto Valle - dubbed the "Cannibal Cop" by the tabloids - was found guilty of conspiracy and accessing a national crime database in March 2013 for plotting to kill and cannibalize women.

Valle and Meltz knew each other through online fetish websites, where they would post information about abducting, torturing and eating women.

Meltz is the former chief of police at the Bedford Veterans Administration Medical Center in Massachusetts. He could face up to 10 years in prison when he is sentenced.