First arrests for Peralta murder

POLICE in Honduras hunting the killers of ex-Rangers player Arnold Peralta have made their first arrests.

Four men and a woman were held during a dawn raid on Thursday at a house in La Ceiba where the 26-yearold midfielder was gunned down on December 10 as he went shopping.

Officers seized a rifle, a 9mm pistol, ammunition, phones and two motorbikes at the property.

A fifth man named as Moises Pascual Murillo, 28, was arrested as part of the same operation at another address in the city.

Police said forensics experts were examining one of the motorbikes suspected of being used by the hitman.

Peralta played 25 times for Rangers between 2013 and 2015.