31.   It effectively barred his controlled purchases of crack cocaine at the Lenox Street housing development as evidence in a case against defendants charged with operating a drug ring there.

32.   Lindstrom is convinced that federal prosecutors were trying to make an example of a drug ring that involved a federal lawman, a dentist and a housewife.

33.   More companies are hiring undercover operatives when they suspect a theft or drug ring is operating on company time.

34.   Officials said he is to questioned about his involvement in the drug ring and its tie to the murder.

35.   Once used to characterize South American drug rings but is now used to describe baseball team owners.

36.   Police officers assume false identities to infiltrate drug rings.

37.   Prosecutors said Hernandez had been implicated in a drug protection ring involving several Dallas police officers, which tipped off police to the murder plot.

38.   Rosen has prosecuted hundreds of defendants in a lengthy career in which she became known for going after large drug rings.

39.   Scott disagreed, characterizing the drug ring as a large conspiracy that put the public at great risk.

40.   The authorities said it had not been difficult for the drug ring to avoid attention over the years.