Honduras Security News

Amid rising violence, a former police-vetting commissioner and Security Secretary Gerzon Velásquez are calling for rigorous evaluation of police, prosecutors, and judges to root out criminal ties and effectively combat crime in Honduras.

Anti-narcotics police and the Honduran Armed Forces dismantled a coca plantation of roughly 11,000 plants in the mountainous Santa Bárbara area of Iriona municipality, Colón department.

Honduran authorities sent an alleged weapons supplier and other members of the Cártel del Diablo gang to pretrial detention on Thursday.

A Roatán court issued arrest orders against four individuals on charges including illegal firearms possession, drug trafficking, and aggravated robbery with violence.

A La Ceiba court held a preliminary hearing for Ronal Alexis Cotto, former legal adviser at El Porvenir prison, charged with abuse of authority and dereliction of duty, with a decision on sending the case to trial still pending.

Honduran police arrested a 50-year-old man in Danlí, El Paraíso, accused of repeatedly sexually abusing his daughter from the age of 13, resulting in a pregnancy and the death of the newborn.

Honduran child-protection prosecutors obtained a judicial detention order against a suspect accused of sexually assaulting a minor in Danlí.

The Western Regional Prosecutor's Office arrested a man accused of sexual assault in Copán as part of a nationwide operation.

A Siguatepeque court began a retrial Thursday against former police officer Jarol Perdomo in the 2021 death of nursing student Keyla Martínez, after the Supreme Court annulled his 2024 conviction for negligent homicide — a charge prosecutors argued should have been aggravated femicide.

The Catholic Diocese of Yoro issued a formal statement condemning a surge in massacres across Honduras and demanding urgent government action, warning that silence would normalize the treatment of human life as disposable.

Honduras's Congress approved a deadline extension on a contract between the National Penitentiary Institute and a private firm to complete the supply and installation of body and object X-ray scanners at prisons nationwide.

Authorities are investigating whether armed gunmen killed three young students riding a motorcycle in El Progreso after mistaking them for gang members.

Three of Honduras's five massacres so far this year have occurred in Yoro department, where rival criminal gangs, maras, drug-trafficking networks, and land-invasion groups are competing for territory across municipalities including Olanchito, El Progreso, and Sulaco.

Authorities conducted multiple police operations in downtown Tegucigalpa and Comayagüela, targeting neighborhoods amid rising crime rates.