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A lawyer was shot and killed inside his vehicle in Esparta, Atlántida department.

Police arrested José Antonio Matute Meza on July 16 in Jutiapa, Atlántida, on suspicion of drug trafficking; he is accused of being a member of the Los Olanchanos gang.

Armed men, including a foreign national whose identity remains unconfirmed, arrived in four unlicensed vehicles at Tornabé on July 12; police seized ammunition but made no arrests, prompting community accusations of unequal enforcement.

A group of swimmers were rescued from the sea after their tour boat sank off the coast of Tela on July 12.

Security authorities arrested four suspects and seized three AR-15 rifles, two shotguns, and other weapons in Mezapita, Arizona, that officials say may have been used in the Rigores massacre in Colón; one suspect was killed in the operation.

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.

Authorities in Tela are investigating the death of an unidentified woman found on a beach in the Garífuna community of San Juan on Sunday morning with a gunshot wound; a man admitted to the hospital with a bullet injury the same night is also under investigation.

Yaritza Murillo, 20, and Katerin Oliva, 19, were shot dead and three men were wounded in an armed attack at a home in El Porvenir, Atlántida; the motive remains unclear and no arrests have been reported.

Honduran police detained one individual found in possession of suspected crack cocaine and powder cocaine in the Mezapa area of Tela, Atlántida.