On Wednesday 4 February 2026 the anti-drug directorate DLCN carried out 17 searches in San Pedro Sula, Cortés, the Public Ministry said.[1][2] Officers seized 937 packages of marijuana, counted as 281,100 doses ready for sale, and 160,500 doses of crack.[1][2] They also seized 81 firearms, including AK-47s and assault rifles, 3,821 unfired rounds, 132 magazines, 23 grenades, four rocket launchers, 17 vehicles of which nine had false compartments, military and police clothing, 79 cannabis vaporisers, a money counter, 12 mobile phones, 84,000 lempiras and 2,000 euros.[1][2]
On 6 February the special organised-crime prosecutor’s office said a court had ordered judicial detention for 10 people linked to the Mara Salvatrucha and had set the initial hearing for 10 February.[2]
On 12 February the ministry said that hearing had produced formal charges and preventive detention for seven of them.[1] Jesús Alberto Rápalo Martínez, Walther Antonio Flores Rodríguez, Elmer David Urrea Álvarez, Richer Bernabé Murillo Munguía, César Bladimir Martínez Isidro and Walter Geovany Castillo Rodríguez were charged with aggravated drug trafficking.[1] Abraham Josué Rosales Matute was charged with keeping firearms, ammunition and explosives.[1] The judge granted provisional dismissal to Brenda María Moradel Maldonado, María Dinora Castellanos Rodríguez and Ingrid Yohana Flores Rodríguez, and the prosecution said it would appeal.[1] The 17 vehicles had by then been handed to the seized-assets office.[1]
