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Police arrested Eduin Raúl Portillo Pereira, 24, on suspicion of kidnapping and killing his girlfriend Ingrid Gabriela Cruz after her body was found in a mountainous area of Francisco Morazán; he allegedly confessed to the killing.

Police arrested a 21-year-old man in Roatán on suspicion of murdering former footballer Kenny Martínez, 22, who was shot on September 1 in Punta Gorda; investigators are still searching for a second suspect.

Erlin Escoto and Aníbal Aguilar, charged in the September 2025 killing of Libre congressional candidate Óscar Bustillo in Yoro, will enter an abbreviated guilty-plea proceeding on September 8, with prosecutors seeking sentence reductions that would total 19.5 years in prison.

Police arrested Jeremías Ávila Dilbert, 30, in La Ceiba in connection with the August 17 shooting death of lawyer Dereck McNeil in Roatán; authorities say the investigation continues to identify other suspects.

Carlos Eduardo Zaldívar Cervantes, alias El Texas, was rearrested on Friday in San Pedro Sula on suspicion of murdering Marvin Omar Fernández Vásquez, a 46-year-old law student, who was shot multiple times at his office on August 11; Zaldívar had been released the day before on drug-trafficking charges pending trial.

Orlin Francisco Turcios Guillén, 32, a livestock merchant in Gualaco, Olancho, was shot and killed on Thursday while heading to his ranch; authorities have not disclosed a motive or identified suspects.