The beauty queen was due to fly to London today
The boyfriend of Maria Jose Alvarado's sister Sofia Trinidad is one of the two men arrested since the women vanished after a party.
Police have found the bodies of Miss Honduras and her sister who went missing last week, a month before the Miss World contest in London.
The bodies of Maria Jose Alvarado, 19, and Sofia Trinidad were found buried in a river in the mountainous region of Santa Barbara, not far from where the two women were last seen and about 110 miles from the capital, Tegucigalpa.
Plutarco Ruiz had been arrested before the bodies were found
"I can confirm that the Alvarado sisters were found," said Leandro Osorio, the head of the criminal investigation unit.
"We also have the murder weapon and the vehicle in which they were transported to the site where they were buried," he added.
The sisters vanished on 13 November after leaving a party in a car without a licence plate at a resort near the northern city.
Two men have been arrested in connection with the women's disappearance, one of whom was named as Sofia's boyfriend Plutarco Ruiz, whose birthday party they were attending.
Ruiz was arrested on suspicion of kidnapping and police seized a pistol and two vehicles as part of their investigation, police spokesman Jose Coello said.
Police had been scouring river valleys and mountains near the border with Guatemala in search of the missing women.
Chief prosecutor Rolando Argueta had indicated his concern.
"The more time that passes without concrete information, the more complicated the investigation becomes," he said.
Honduras is statistically the most violent nation in the world.
A UN report released in April this year revealed the Central American nation, which has a population of eight million, has a murder rate of 90.4 people per 100,000.
Venezuela, which came second on the list, has a murder rate of 53.7 people per 100,000.
Sky News
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