This is an official press release from the U.S. Department of Justice (USAO - Utah), published as received.

ST. GEORGE, Utah –A Honduran citizen living in the United States illegally, was indicted by a federal grand jury for drug crimes after he allegedly trafficked drugs into the district of Utah.

Mario Guzman Bonilla, 20, an undocumented Honduran citizen living in Salt Lake City, Utah, was charged on October 14, 2025. According to court documents, on August 7, 2025, a Washington City Police Officer conducted a traffic stop on a vehicle that Guzman Bonilla was driving. A K-9 officer was deployed and alerted to the presence of narcotics in the vehicle. Officers searched the vehicle and seized ten packages of narcotics from the vehicle. The state crime lab tested the narcotics, which tested positive for fentanyl and weighed more than 10 kilograms of fentanyl powder.

Guzman Bonilla is charged with possession of fentanyl with intent to distribute. His initial appearance on the indictment was October 20, 2025, before a U.S. Magistrate Judge. A two-day jury trial is scheduled for December 30, 2025, at 9:00 a.m. in courtroom 2B 206 in St. George.

Acting United States Attorney Felice John Viti for the District of Utah made the announcement.

The case is being investigated by Homeland Security Investigations (HSI). Special assistance was provided by the Washington City Police Department.

Assistant United States Attorney Angela M. Reddish-Day of the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Utah is prosecuting the case.

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. Operation Take Back America streamlines efforts and resources from the Department’s Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces (OCDETF) and Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN).

An indictment is merely an allegation and all defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.

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*This press release was posted November 14, after the end of the federal government shutdown.