1.   Couriers then carried the heroin into the United States on commercial flights, for distribution in New York City, Philadelphia and Boston.

2.   She said the traffickers never told her how much heroin she was carrying.

3.   Police say Ferguson, a parolee who was carrying heroin, was killed after he and other drug suspects were stopped by members of a plainclothes narcotics unit.

4.   Detectives said they were carrying the heroin to a Chinese gang in Bangkok that would smuggle it to the United States.

5.   His lawyer said he still maintains he was forced into carrying the heroin.

6.   She said she was only carrying the heroin for Lock but had no intention of selling it.

7.   Sobbing, Gulshan said her family was fooled into carrying the heroin.

8.   Some carry heroin to pay off their smuggling debts, while women may be forced into prostitution by Asian crime gangs.

9.   The English-language Vietnam News said proposed legislation would increase the availability of the death penalty for people caught carrying heroin.

10.   The newspaper quoted investigators as saying that Tan was hired by two Thais to carry the heroin from Cambodia to France.