21.   He arrested one of the alleged leaders of a violent drug operation called the Gulf Cartel and three military officials who are accused of collaborating with them.

22.   He tried to direct the drug operation from his hospital bed, but it fell apart.

23.   However, they acknowledged that Garcia Abrego has not been active in drug operations for years and that other drug kingpins have moved into his territory.

24.   In telephone interviews, federal agents involved in the investigations sketched a sophisticated drug trafficking operation.

25.   In the same room where Guy lay dead police found a cache of drugs and paraphernalia that hinted at a substantial drug operation including packaging supplies and scales.

26.   Information about border smuggling is so fragmented and incomplete, McCaffrey said, that it leaves some drug operations running blind.

27.   Lecter enlists Dirty Dee, whose drug operation Pootie shut down earlier, to help stop the Tang menace.

28.   Little, a professional criminal with three prior felony convictions, also ran a major drug operation.

29.   Law enforcement officers believe the plane was used in a drug operation, perhaps by an outlaw motorcycle gang.

30.   Nigerian drug operations reportedly control much of the heroin trafficking in Southeast Asia.