Honduras Security News

A shootout at a resort in El Pino, El Porvenir, Atlántida left two people dead—one identified as Isidro López Ruiz—and another seriously wounded; police cordoned off the scene and are investigating.

An 11-year-old gave birth at a hospital in Santa Rosa de Copán on July 4; her father says he was unaware of the pregnancy and has asked authorities to investigate the circumstances and identify those responsible.

Fifteen members of the Pandilla 18 gang have been convicted and sentenced to over 1,000 years in prison for the June 2023 attack on the female prison in Támara that killed 46 women, many of them burned alive in locked cells.

Honduras's National Police clarified that security cameras are not prohibited in homes and businesses, dispelling social-media rumors that arose after police dismantled cameras allegedly installed by criminal gangs in San Pedro Sula.

Police arrested a 38-year-old woman accused of killing Florinda Ramírez in February after the victim came to demand repayment of a loan; she was attacked with a machete and her body was later found in Orica, Francisco Morazán.

Milton Josué García Hernández, 19, was arrested after police say he contacted a 13-year-old girl on TikTok, met her in person in Florida, Copán, and sexually assaulted her twice at his home in the Los Dormitorios village.

Honduras's one-year firearms amnesty, enacted July 2 under congressional decree, allows owners of undocumented legal weapons to register them without penalty starting July 6 at the National Police's Firearms Unit in Tegucigalpa.

Child welfare organizations reported that 197 minors died in Honduras during the first six months of 2026, with 47% from traffic accidents and 37% from homicides, and warned that violence is now spreading beyond the three historically hardest-hit departments.

A court ordered Anyi Yariela Mejía Interiano, 28, to stand trial for aggravated drug trafficking after police seized 154 packages of suspected cocaine and $2,000 in cash from a vehicle she was driving in Namasigüe on June 29; her mother received provisional dismissal.

A 20-year-old suspected member of the 18th Street Gang (Pandilla 18) was arrested in the Planeta neighborhood of San Pedro Sula; authorities seized approximately 7,928 lempiras (about $318), cocaine, and a mototaxi vehicle.

Byron Cárcamo was killed in an armed attack on his motorcycle in the 24 de Mayo neighborhood of Olanchito on Friday afternoon; authorities are investigating the motive and identity of the attackers.

A man accused of sexually abusing his young daughter was ordered held in pretrial detention, while the child's aunt is being prosecuted for failing to report the abuse.

A 10-year-old boy became the third confirmed fatality from an explosion Wednesday at an informal fireworks workshop in Nueva Arcadia, Copán, where a woman and an 8-year-old girl also died; a 4-year-old with severe burns was airlifted to Tegucigalpa.

The Honduran Armed Forces and Public Ministry dismantled ten coca plantations, a marijuana crop, and three drug-processing facilities in Botaderos National Park in Tocoa, Colón, seizing over 125,500 coca bushes and chemical precursors used in narcotics production.

Between January 2019 and mid-June 2026, Honduras recorded 2,904 homicides of women, averaging over 360 deaths per year, with Cortés and Francisco Morazán departments accounting for 37% of cases.

Police arrested two suspects on drug-trafficking charges following an operation in Catacamas, Olancho.

Police arrested an adult and a minor on suspicion of drug trafficking in Choloma, Cortés.

The anti-extortion and terrorist-association unit arrested an active member of Pandilla 18 who authorities say was assigned to coordinate the gang's illicit operations in the Amarateca valley area of the capital.

A pedestrian died after being struck by a pickup truck on Bulevar Fuerzas Armadas in Tegucigalpa; the driver remained at the scene and traffic authorities are investigating.

Three men were killed in El Negrito, Yoro, early on July 2; police are investigating possible links to cattle rustling complaints in the area in recent weeks.

Osman Danilo Reyes, 30, a motorcycle-taxi operator, was shot and killed on a road near the village of La Montañita in San Juan, Intibucá, as police secured the crime scene.

A 27-year-old woman in Comayagua was arrested for fabricating her own abduction in November 2025 and demanding $10,000 from relatives to pay off personal debts; police detected inconsistencies in her initial report.

National Police Director Rigoberto Oseguera Mass has reinstated officers previously removed by a 2016–2018 purge, including Francisco Javier Leiva Gamoneda, accused in a 2016 investigation of involvement in the 2009 killing of a drug-enforcement director, and Jorge Alberto Barralaga Hernández, convicted of money laundering in 2021.

Juan Ángel Guadalupe Domínguez Cárcamo, 66, was found dead in a mountainous area of Salamá municipality after disappearing on Saturday; firefighters recovered his remains in an advanced state of decomposition, and authorities are investigating the cause of death.

Two brothers, Osman Naín Jiménez Munguía, 26, and Darwin Javier Padilla Jiménez, were shot and killed by armed gunmen in the Lomas de Buenos Aires neighborhood of La Ceiba on Tuesday night; authorities are investigating the incident.

A 16-year-old boy died at a Tegucigalpa hospital after being shot by police during a June 30 operation in La Esperanza, Intibucá; his mother says officers beat and shot him, while police say they are investigating the officers involved.

A man identified as Ernesto Vaca was killed after being struck by a motorcycle on a main street in the Ramón Amaya neighborhood of Comayagüela, Tegucigalpa.

A court in San Pedro Sula found three people guilty of human trafficking, forced labor, aggravated assault, and illegal adoption of four children they exploited in scrap collection under threats and chains in Puerto Cortés, with potential sentences of up to 37 years each.

An explosion at a home-based fireworks and powder-products facility in Copán killed two people—a woman and a 4-year-old child—and injured three others with severe burns; authorities said high temperatures and a possible lack of safety measures likely contributed to the blast, though investigations are ongoing.

José Enrique Amaya, 29, was arrested in Yoro after police discovered he had staged his own kidnapping using tomato paste to simulate wounds, demanding 600,000 lempiras (about $24,000) from his sister in the United States.