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An 11-year-old boy, José Ramón Gutiérrez Maldonado, was fatally stabbed while resting in a hammock in Balfate, Colón; police arrested a man known in the community as "Piolín" who is believed to have a mental illness.

Honduran prosecutors' agents destroyed a coca plantation containing 7,280 plants in a mountainous area of Bonito Oriental, Colón, as part of ongoing anti-drug operations across the country.

Julio Gómez was arrested in Sonaguera after allegedly beating his live-in partner, Suyapa Zamora, to death with a wooden club in the Arenas community on June 17, citing jealousy over her alleged interest in his cousin.

A judge ordered pretrial detention for Carlos Molina and Williams Reyes, who are accused as co-perpetrators in a mass killing that left 19 people dead in the Colón village of Rigores.

Carlos Alexis Mencía, known as 'El Gato Negro,' was arrested Tuesday in La Ceiba as the main suspect in the May 21 massacre at an African palm plantation in Rigores, Colón.

Five National Police officers were killed in a violent ambush at a house in Corinto belonging to a leader of a criminal organization linked to the Jalisco Nueva Generación cartel; investigators say about 150 gang members participated in the attack.