Honduras News – Daily News about Honduras

At the request of the prosecution, charges were dismissed today against a former security chief-turned-preacher who was accused of killing a tribal leader and two other people in 1981.

James “Jimmy” Hughes [of Jimmy Hughes Ministries in Honduras] had been charged with murder and conspiracy in the deaths of Ralph Arthur Boger, 42, Patricia Roberta Castro, 44, and Fred Alfred Alvarez, 32, who was vice chairman of the Cabazon Band of Mission Indians Tribal Council. They were found dead July 1, 1981, at 35-040 Bob Hope Drive in Rancho Mirage.

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Jacqueline Tarsa LeBaron, daughter of the late polygamous sect leader and convicted murderer Ervil LeBaron and a longtime fugitive, has been captured in Honduras and returned to the U.S.

Patricia Villafranca, a spokeswoman for the FBI’s Houston office, said LeBaron, 44, was taken into custody by agents late Thursday in Moroceli, El Paraisio, Honduras, after she had been expelled for being in the Latin American country illegally. LeBaron made an initial appearance before a U.S. magistrate judge late Friday morning, where she was ordered held without bond pending further proceedings…Continue news article here.

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According to the Honduras National Police, a bodyguard for former President Carlos Flores (Lucas Manzanares), and his daughter were shot, and his 6-year-old granddaughter died, when the family was surprised by gunmen while driving their car in Tegucigalpa on Saturday.

Mr. Manzanares was driving with his daughter and granddaughter when men on foot shot at them them in the downtown business district. Municipal police officers reported that Manzanares and his family were taken to a private hospital, where his little granddaughter died. The former presidential bodyguard and his daughter received wounds but “are out of danger”, according to National Police spokesman Leonel Sauceda. He added that eyewitnesses saw the two or three men who ambushed Manzanares’ car.

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