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U.S. ICE deported three Hondurans—Víctor Manuel Zelaya García (firearms and traffic convictions), José Daniel Burgos Laínez (armed robbery), and Ludwig Criss Zelaya Romero (cocaine conspiracy and firearms charges)—among 12 immigrants removed from Texas.

Former congressman Fredy Nájera sought to withdraw his 2018 guilty plea in a New York federal drug-trafficking case, arguing his lawyer Manuel Rocha had a conflict of interest because Rocha also represented Honduran drug trafficker Wilter Blanco — the man Nájera's defense wanted to implicate in the 2009 killing of General Julián Arístides González.

Juan Carlos Arvizú Hernández, a Honduran drug trafficker known as 'Lanchita' and convicted of trafficking over 5,000 kg of cocaine through Central America to the United States, failed in his appeal to reduce his 30-year sentence, which he claimed violated Honduras's extradition treaty.

Guatemalan authorities are investigating whether assassins from Honduras crossed the border to kill Edgar Estuardo Cáceres Barreira, a convicted drug trafficker who had served time in the US and returned to Guatemala.

Junior Monge, 27, accused of leading a major cocaine-smuggling organization called Los Monges that moved drugs to the US and Europe via Honduras's Atlantic corridor, was arrested June 25 in northern Spain and faces extradition to Honduras.