41.   Entrapment has become a common defense to the increasing number of sex crime prosecutions resulting from government sting operations on the Internet, where agents typically pose as children.

42.   Federal authorities seized the property after the previous owners, identified in court papers as John Terranova and Dominic Imperio, were arrested in a government sting operation.

43.   FBI agents set up a sting operation, posing as bank officials, to meet with the Venezuelan.

44.   Fleiss claimed that the police sting operation amounted to entrapment.

45.   For more than a decade, young teens have conducted sting operations in cooperation with the Allentown, Pa., Health and Police Departments.

46.   Game and Fish officers conduct some sting operations involving the illegal taking and holding of endan gered species.

47.   Game and Fish officers conduct some sting operations involving the illegal taking and holding of endangered species.

48.   He bought the cocaine, left the building, walked around the corner to Seventh Avenue and was caught in a police sting operation.

49.   He contacted the Manhattan district attorney, who set up a sting operation.

50.   He contended that he took the money in a secret sting operation, not an act of corruption.