11.   For a drug courier coached on how to navigate the bustling airport, the hurdles now are more unpredictable.

12.   Her role as a drug courier would have been fatal had the drugs not been discovered, Customs agents said.

13.   Iris Gonzalez, a paroled drug courier, said Ms. Hartwell helped her when other programs thought her too great a risk.

14.   One of those was New York federal District Judge Harold Baer Jr., a Clinton appointee who threw out seized drugs as evidence against a drug courier.

15.   One theory is that a young Arab-American among the dead named Khaled N. Jaafar was a drug courier tricked into carrying a bomb aboard.

16.   Reuter suggested that drug syndicates build a projected loss from seizures into their budgets, just as they set aside substantial sums for bribes or drug couriers.

17.   She had been arrested on a Greyhound bus here as a drug courier and, under federal sentencing guidelines, was facing at least five years in prison.

18.   Some of the children could be used by adults as drug couriers, he said.

19.   The air force and army warn that gangs are trying to recruit military men and women as drug couriers.

20.   The girl is believed to be the youngest suspected drug courier ever encountered by the Customs Service, Boyd said.