Extradition

Juan Carlos Arvizú Hernández, a Honduran drug trafficker known as 'Lanchita' and convicted of trafficking over 5,000 kg of cocaine through Central America to the United States, failed in his appeal to reduce his 30-year sentence, which he claimed violated Honduras's extradition treaty.

Mario Roberto Flores Mejía, a Honduran fugitive who had been on the FBI's most-wanted list since 2007 with a $250,000 reward, was handed over to U.S. authorities after a Honduran judge approved his extradition to face charges in Philadelphia for the 2000 kidnapping, sexual assault, and murder of a five-year-old girl.

A 37-year-old man from Danlí was extradited from the Dominican Republic to face charges of aggravated drug trafficking and criminal association; authorities say he coordinated a drug shipment from Colón to Danlí in November 2020 as part of an organized-crime structure.

A Honduran extradition judge ordered the provisional arrest of Darwin Espinal del Cid, arrested Monday in Choluteca on a US warrant in connection with the killing of a 23-year-old Guatemalan woman in Pennsylvania, with a hearing set for September 2.

Pennsylvania authorities have asked Honduras's Supreme Court to extradite a Honduran citizen accused of homicide; a judge has been assigned and an arrest warrant will be issued, though authorities have not disclosed the suspect's identity pending his capture.

El Salvador's police arrested a 49-year-old Nicaraguan woman on a Honduran warrant for smuggling and delivered her to Honduras's Interpol unit, which will present her to courts in Tegucigalpa.

A Honduran court approved the extradition of 30-year-old Humberto Eliseo Sánchez Baca, known as "El Chevo," to El Salvador, where he faces charges of aggravated extortion, organized crime, and conspiracy to commit murder.

Fermín Alberto García Isaza, a Colombian wanted by Colombia since 2010 for drug trafficking and linked to a 211-kilogram cocaine seizure in Honduras in 2015, was arrested in Puerto Lempira and will face extradition proceedings.

Former president Juan Orlando Hernández, freed after a US pardon erased his 45-year drug-trafficking sentence, will return voluntarily to Honduras this Sunday to face domestic charges of fraud and money laundering, after a Honduran judge suspended the international arrest warrant against him.

Former president Juan Orlando Hernández, who was pardoned by President Trump in 2025 after extradition to the US on drug-trafficking charges, will return to Honduras on July 26 to face trial on fraud and money-laundering charges related to the Pandora II case, with a court hearing scheduled for August 3.

Border police arrested Matthew Saul Castro, a 30-year-old American, at the Las Manos checkpoint in El Paraíso after detecting a red Interpol alert for two murder charges in the United States; he was also previously detained in Honduras in connection with a killing in Yoro.

Joaquín Alvarado Bueso, 38, was extradited to the United States on charges of first-degree rape, indecent acts against minors, and child sexual abuse involving two stepchildren.

Michael Adolf Dixon Rivers, a Honduran drug trafficker who operated Caribbean shipping routes, was sentenced to 14 years in US federal prison in May 2022 after authorities intercepted approximately 3 metric tons of cocaine near Aruba in 2019, unraveling his international cocaine-smuggling conspiracy.

Francisco Cosenza, former director of Honduras's Security Tax Fund, was sentenced by a US court to five years of home confinement probation after pleading guilty to money laundering and bribery charges related to the misuse of public security funds.

A court ordered pretrial detention for Jefry Josseth Guardado Herrera and Elí Nahúm Guerra, accused of involvement in a May clash at the Corinto border post that killed five members of a defunct anti-gang police unit.

Former president Juan Orlando Hernández's lawyers filed a motion to nullify all proceedings in the Pandora II case — alleging he was abroad when charges were formally filed — and challenged 15 of 36 proposed evidence items, with the hearing adjourned to August 24 so prosecutors can review the objections.

The Supreme Court of Justice suspended the arrest warrant against former president Juan Orlando Hernández, clearing his return to Honduras on July 31 to face fraud and money-laundering charges in the case known as Pandora II, with voluntary court appearance set for August 3.

Francisco Cosenza, former director of Honduras's Security Tax (Tasa de Seguridad), was sentenced in Miami to five years of home detention after pleading guilty to money laundering and bribery charges tied to over $10 million in padded police uniform and supply contracts.