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Prosecutors requested a seven-year prison sentence for Luis Francisco Núñez Santos, convicted of transporting drugs, during a sentencing hearing in San Pedro Sula.

A 28-year-old man was arrested in Olancho on suspicion of sexually abusing a 5-year-old girl after her mother reported the allegations to police; the suspect is a relative of the victim's family.

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.

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.

A judge ordered Wilian Obeth Medina Cáli held in pretrial detention after he allegedly hit and killed Alejandra Patricia Meza Reyes, 23, a municipal band member from Petoa, Santa Bárbara, in a traffic accident in La Esperanza, Intibucá; prosecutors plan to upgrade the charge to aggravated reckless homicide.

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.

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.

A tow-truck driver involved in a fatal accident at a rodeo in Comayagua has been formally charged and ordered held in pretrial detention.

A woman from Choloma died over the weekend at a local gymnasium in circumstances authorities are investigating; forensic pathologists are conducting an autopsy to determine the cause of death and whether any preexisting medical condition was involved.

The Public Ministry announced it will seek more than 60 years in prison for a man accused of sexually abusing his nephew.

A court sentenced a man to 20 years in prison for the murder of attorney René Altamirano in San Pedro Sula, following a prosecution by the Public Ministry.

Evin Noel Sales Ayala was convicted and sentenced to 15 years in prison for the January 2022 murder of Pablo Hernández Rivera, a broadcaster, indigenous Lenca leader, and human-rights and land-rights advocate in Lempira.

A 40-year-old tow-truck driver from Choloma was turned over to prosecutors for investigation into a June 17 traffic accident on Highway CA-5 that killed seven National Police officers and injured dozens when his vehicle lost control descending a slope, overturned, and struck a police bus.

Honduras's Public Ministry seized 104 illicit assets—including 40 vehicles, 38 financial products, 19 real-estate properties, and seven businesses—linked to a fugitive with ties to the criminal organization Los Pinto, after detecting an unexplained gap of 418 million lempiras (about $16.7 million) in his financial movements.

Pedro Alexis Matamoros Sánchez, the fourth person charged in the 2019 killing of Tegucigalpa's former mayor Óscar Acosta, was sentenced to 20 years in prison after accepting guilt in the crime.

Honduras's anti-trafficking unit conducted raids in La Lima, Cortés, to investigate suspected child sexual abuse material production and distribution.

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

Prosecutors are investigating who abandoned a vehicle containing suspected cocaine and marijuana in Villanueva, Cortés.

Honduras's Special Prosecutor for Tax Crimes has recovered more than L31.9 million (roughly $1.28 million USD) in unpaid taxes from smuggling cases in the northern region.

Prosecutors arrested 11 current and former Central Bank of Honduras employees, including two active managers, on suspicion of 100 counts of embezzlement tied to the systematic theft of public funds over several years.

A young man has agreed to an abbreviated legal procedure in connection with the killing of a resident in Lepaterique, prosecutors announced.

Attorney Ángel Murillo was sworn in as director of the ATIC criminal investigation agency as Honduras undertakes a broader security overhaul, including the new National Crime Agency and a replacement anti-extortion division after five officers died in a botched raid.

A judge ordered pretrial detention for the second suspect in the death of a child in Belén, Lempira, following a prosecution request by the Public Ministry.

Honduras's Public Prosecutor's Office dismantled a criminal network accused of cyber fraud against a company, stealing more than two million lempiras (about $80,000).

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.