1.   Because of the number of people involved, police believe a big organized operation may be behind the trafficking operation.

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

3.   The authorities described the Velasquez Organization as a vast cocaine trafficking operation that earned several million dollars annually by distributing cocaine all over the metropolitan area.

4.   The U.S.-orchestrated crackdown on the cartels inside Colombia in recent years has pushed the center of drug trafficking operations northward, closer to the U.S. border.

5.   Authorities accuse guerrillas of provoking the protests to protect drug trafficking operations.

6.   It was the second major bust of a wildlife trafficking operation in Hanoi this month.

7.   It was not immediately clear how the fighting began in Meta state, where rebels protect drug trafficking operations.

8.   Levita was named in an indictment describing an Amsterdam-based trafficking operation headed by Sean Erez.

9.   More than a year of inquiries in Switzerland have led to the break-up of a major European cocaine trafficking operation, Swiss police said Friday.

10.   Officials accused Isern Suarez of heading up a drug trafficking operation between Cali, Colombia, and New York City.