United States Drug Enforcement Administration

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. - David X. Sullivan, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that VICTOR FRANCISCO BONILLA, also known as “Mostro,” 35, of Bridgeport, has been sentenced by U.S. District Judge Sarah F. Russell in New Haven to 120 months of imprisonment and five years of supervised release for trafficking cocaine.

According to court documents and statements made in court, an FBI Bridgeport Safe Streets Task Force investigation determined that a narcotics trafficking organization was distributing that distributed fentanyl, cocaine, and crack cocaine in southern Connecticut.  Members of the organization regularly traveled to the Bronx, New York, to acquire kilogram quantities of fentanyl and deliver narcotics proceeds, and to Puerto Rico to acquire cocaine and ship it through the U.S. Mail to various addresses in Connecticut.  During the investigation, the FBI Task Force and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service seized several packages containing a total of at least 16 kilograms of cocaine and identified several more that likely contained narcotics. 

The investigation revealed that between August and October 2024, Bonilla purchased distribution quantities of cocaine from a leader of the drug trafficking organization and sold the drug to his own customers.  In 2025, Bonilla began receiving kilogram quantities of cocaine through the mail from a source in Puerto Rico and then supplied the drug to the organization and his own customers.

Bonilla has been detained since his arrest on September 10, 2025.  On May 11, 2026, he pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute and to possess with intent to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine.

This investigation is being conducted by the FBI Bridgeport Safe Streets Task Force and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, with the assistance of the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Connecticut State Police, and the Bridgeport, Norwalk, Trumbull, Hartford, Fairfield, Shelton, Ansonia, Derby, Greenwich, Stamford, New Haven, Waterbury, and Louisville (Ky.) Police Departments.  The case is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Lauren C. Clark and Kenneth L. Gresham.

This case is part of Operation Take Back America, a nationwide initiative that marshals the full resources of the Department of Justice to repel the invasion of illegal immigration, achieve the total elimination of cartels and transnational criminal organizations (TCOs), and protect our communities from the perpetrators of violent crime.