3018 – Assault in Honduras – Roatan – Coxen Hole
Incident Date: 2023-04-18 at 02:30
Event Type: Assault
Stolen Items: Cash, backpack, cellphone
Secured: Not Locked
Source Type: 1st Hand Report
Incident Details: A yacht anchored alone in Coxen Hole. On the second night at 0230HRS two masked and armed men boarded through the lit cockpit/open companionway. They proceeded to tie the crew at gunpoint with braided shoelaces they had brought with them and covered their victim’s face with a tshirt. They ransacked the forward cabin briefly and took cash, a phone and a backpack they had emptied. The boarders spoke a non-Spanish local language and were onboard for only 3-5 minutes before leaving the scene with their accomplices in a panga. The crew was not injured. ||A police report was made. No forensics were collected.||The yacht departed later the same day.