11.   But many police complain that state laws are too restrictive, sometimes preventing them from taking the money that fuels drug operations.

12.   By law, the president is required annually to certify that countries in which illegal drugs are produced are cooperating with U.S. drug control operations.

13.   Diaz owns a pricey supper club and extensive real estate, prosecutors say, and was known in upper Manhattan for a seemingly untouchable drug operation.

14.   Drug operations outside the United States will be known as Aventis Pharma.

15.   Despite those complaints, Mexican officials say Villanueva continues to figure in a sweeping investigation of drug operations in his state of Quintana Roo.

16.   Federal officials had subpoenaed him in hopes that he would testify against higher-ups in the alleged drug operation.

17.   For every clandestine lab investigators raid, dozens of others remain in operation, especially in rural areas where drug operations are hard to detect.

18.   Gutierrez quickly acted to appoint army officers to manage drug operations in several states, including the Sinaloa and Sonoro, where drug traffickers operate heavily.

19.   He already had three felony and five misdemeanor convictions, and the drug operation he was running was a large one.

20.   He became a kingpin for a sizable drug operation.