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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.

A judge in Yoro ordered pretrial detention for two inmates accused of sexually assaulting a fellow prisoner at the Olanchito penal facility; prosecutors say they have forensic and witness evidence for a hearing scheduled for June 25.

Police in Olanchito, Yoro, arrested two laborers aged 32 and 24 on suspicion of sexually assaulting a 31-year-old man in his home on Saturday night and threatening him to prevent him from reporting the crime.

Mario Macedo, his sister Carmen Lobo, and Lobo's daughter Yaritza Suárez were shot dead at their home in rural Yoro in an attack police believe was retaliation for property damage months earlier; multiple gunmen on motorcycles carried out the killings.

Police arrested two men, ages 25 and 22, on suspicion of armed robbery with intimidation against a resident of Yoro; officers caught them fleeing the Las Colinas neighborhood shortly after the alleged assault.

National Police arrested two members of a criminal gang accused of stealing and dismantling motorcycles in Olanchito, Yoro.

Prosecutors in the Atlantic Littoral region destroyed more than 20,000 coca bushes during operations in Olanchito, part of ongoing drug-crop eradication efforts.

National Police arrested a man suspected of drug distribution in Morazán, Yoro, during a raid operation.

Firefighters in Yoro used a wooden board to free a 7-year-old boy who became trapped between the cargo box and cab of a pickup truck in El Pantano neighborhood; the cause of the incident and any injuries remain unclear.

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.