Belizean fugitives Benjamin Peters, Alexander Edwards and Gabriel Salazar, wanted by Belize police for murder and the Spanish Lookout Scotiabank robbery, were shot by Honduran police in Honduras. Salazar, reports say, is in critical condition recovering, after emergency treatment saved his life. Peters and Edwards were declared dead on arrival at the hospital and were […]
Marcos Joel Álvarez Barahona, aka “the Unicorn” was arrested by National Police while trying to leave the country. Álvarez Barahona is a member of the Mara Salvatrucha, and believed to be one of those responsible for killing the Ceibeño journalist, David Meza Montecinos. The suspect was apprehended at the police post on the southern exit […]
Deputy Transportation Director, Rosel Quinonez, was killed Thursday night as he got out of his car in the northern city of La Ceiba. Authorities have no information on a possible motive. Quinonez, 46, was a longtime politician in President Lobo’s National Party. “We regret that these sort of actions are happening in Honduras,” Transportation Director […]
Yesterday afternoon, Óscar Danilo Santos was handcuffed and sent to the National Penitentiary. The former legal adviser to Hondutel is accused by prosecutors of committing several crimes, including stealing secrets which endangered people’s freedom and personal safety. Óscar Danilo Santos initially presented himself voluntarily to the court, and was granted substituted measures at his initial […]
At dawn, three unidentified men killed the head of National Bureau of Investigation, (DNIC) in the department of Cortes, Walter Iván Romero Alvarenga, inspector of the municipality of La Lima. His lifeless body was found inside an Isuzu green pickup truck. On the scene there were several AK-47 nine-millimeter caps strewn about. According to information […]