1.   At first, agents simply ran the safe house for one smuggling ring.

2.   Attorney General Janet Reno said the governments of a half-dozen countries cooperated with U.S. investigators to smash the smuggling rings.

3.   Bergeron said most other immigrant smuggling rings are connected to only a small handful of employers.

4.   Border agents also go undercover to infiltrate smuggling rings.

5.   A federal grand jury has indicted four members of an international smuggling ring that trafficked in rare and endangered reptiles, including such exotic species as the Komodo dragon.

6.   A team of local and federal law enforcement officials interviewed Haitian-American community leaders Thursday in an attempt to identify members of the smuggling ring.

7.   A spokesman for the Immigration and Naturalization Service, Russell Bergeron, declined to comment Sunday on how the smuggling ring was uncovered by his agency.

8.   After he was indicted, he said, he learned that others in the smuggling ring had cooperated with federal authorities.

9.   But before he could do that, Schlagenhauf launched the effort to lure Johnson into the smuggling ring.

10.   But she added that the international smuggling rings that help Chinese sneak into the U.S. have been quick to adapt, often creating new problems.