An MS-13 gang member who became an informant and then was convicted of lying about murders he committed in his native Honduras won an order from a federal judge in San Francisco today for a new trial. U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer ruled that prosecutors hadn’t proved that Roberto Acosta’s alleged lie was material, or […]
The most controversial name in law enforcement is Commissioner José Ricardo Ramírez del Cid, the newly named director of the National Police. In a hierarchal institution, two senior classes of police administrators were oddly passed over when Ramírez was named to his post. U.S. embassy officials, Honduran government authorities and prosecutors acknowledge that even in […]
Extradition from Honduras will be allowed as of February 1, 2012. The Honduran National Congress voted this week to approve the new law. The United States is pleased with the passing of the measure, as it will allow the northern ally to bring Hondurans to the U.S. for prosecution. Shortly after the news, the United […]
Fifteen motorcycles are now on the premises of the DNIC, which were recovered yesterday by police authorities in an operation carried out in various garages and parking lots located throughout Tegucigalpa. Bikes were seized from the Cerro Grande, Las Ayestas, Las Pavas, and Villafranca neighborhoods. Other stolen motorcycles were located along the highway to Olancho […]
Eight people were massacred in the rural town of Sabá, in the Northern Department of Colón, over a land conflict police authorities reported. The Chief of Police of Colón, Osmín Bardales, said their investigation found that the deaths occurred when members of the same family boarded a vehicle and were slain with machetes and AK-47 […]