Narcotrafico

Special Cocaine Task Force (FESCCO) agents arrested four people carrying 135 packages of suspected cocaine in Lempira Department and secured judicial detention orders against them.

Lawyers from Colombian President Gustavo Petro's party filed a complaint with Honduras's Public Ministry against former President Juan Orlando Hernández, alleging terrorist association and crimes against humanity based on disputed audio recordings, as forensic analysis of the recordings remains inconclusive.

Honduran armed forces have destroyed more than 515,000 coca bushes across at least 25 illegal plantations and nine drug-processing sites in six departments so far this year, including a newly secured crop of 16,500 plants in Colón.

Armed forces discovered a coca plantation and a makeshift drug-processing lab in the Río Tinto mountain range of Colón department, bringing the year-to-date total to over 500,000 coca plants and nine processing sites seized across six departments.