11.   These days they can cost hundreds rather than thousands of pounds, and drug rings are known to be using them.

12.   And soon, the identities in a suspected drug ring might unravel.

13.   Another theory is that the stockpiling has dried up sales for some drug rings, making them unable to pay their debts to traffickers higher up the chain.

14.   Assistant FBI Director Thomas Pickard described the drug ring as an equal opportunity criminal network.

15.   A drug ring might buy a restaurant and set up an account for its revenue.

16.   A truer measure of success, though, would be progress in dismantling drugs rings and putting corrupt police and officials in jail.

17.   But law enforcement officials said Wednesday that the couple was part of a major drug distribution ring that supplied large amounts of cocaine in the Vine City area.

18.   But the Russian mafia sure does, as do various Afghan factions, drug rings and Pakistani secret agents.

19.   But when Dade County drug rings started having gunbattles in broad daylight, federal authorities cracked down.

20.   Clinton will depict drug rings, nuclear smugglers and terrorists as the emerging threat to peace in the post-Cold War era.