1.   But drugs related crime is posing an ever bigger challenge.

2.   Also allows for alternatives to prison for nonviolent drug crimes.

3.   Among the felonies that qualify as third strikes are auto theft, petty theft with a prior felony conviction, and most drug crimes.

4.   And Utah and Oregon both passed measures making it harder for law enforcement authorities to seize and sell property linked to drug crimes.

5.   Before the trial, six other members of the operation, including the leader, Carmen Flores-Fernandez, pleaded guilty to drug crimes, Able said.

6.   Black Americans have been disproportionately hit by the war on drugs because they tend to commit the wrong kinds of drug crime.

7.   A defendant has a better chance of getting into Willard if he committed his drug crime in Rochester than in the Bronx.

8.   Brown was never convicted of a drug crime.

9.   Bush said the aid from the FBI and federal Drug Enforcement Agency would allow police to prosecute drug crimes under federal laws with stiffer sentences.

10.   But Mayor Rudolph Giuliani cast the case as starkly different, saying the victim had a history of drug crimes.