21.   No arrests had been made in the case, but authorities were questioning three people in connection with the smuggling ring.

22.   Prosecutors provided startling details about the smuggling ring and said the rifles were destined for U.S. street gangs.

23.   She soon got a job offer from a smuggling ring based in Mexico.

24.   Shelby and U.S. Attorney Paul Charlton said U.S. and Mexican prosecutors have cast a broad net that is expected to snare others involved in the smuggling ring.

25.   The arrest breaks up a smuggling ring that may have been bringing in scores of illegal aliens per month into the country, prosecutors say.

26.   The collapse of the Soviet Empire opened up new supply routes and spawned smuggling rings from Burma to Estonia.

27.   The immigrants typically end up in New York City, where the smuggling rings have a center of operation.

28.   The official, Gen. Oleksiy Chernyshov, was allegedly part of a smuggling ring that traded alcohol and cigarettes.

29.   The raid broke up what investigators say was a smuggling ring poised to earn millions off the hopes of dirt-poor Chinese peasants.

30.   The smuggling ring took in enormous sums of money, officials said.