Family Dispute

José Merlo was severely injured in an alleged machete attack by his brother Denis in El Paraíso on October 15, hours after their father's funeral, in what authorities believe may stem from a dispute over a family coffee farm.

Juan Ángel López Fuentes, 30, and Dixion Geovany Lara Aldana, 17, were found partially buried in a field in El Naranjo, Jutiapa, Atlántida on Monday; a third man was wounded and survived, and authorities are investigating a possible family dispute as the motive.

Police in Tegucigalpa arrested a woman from Olancho who confessed to staging her own abduction along with her two infants and demanding 300,000 lempiras (about $12,000) from her partner, whom she accused of financial neglect and abuse.

Police arrested a man accused of killing his cousin during an argument over money.