1.   Macias also said he never arrested anyone and helped stage bonfires of fake cocaine for the media.

2.   Accomplices switched fake cocaine for drugs that were slated for incineration, said lawmaker Juan Velit.

3.   In a sting operation last month, Tineo arranged for Fuller to pick up fake cocaine.

4.   Surveillance photos and audio tapes showed workers removing luggage full of fake cocaine from planes, circumvented customs inspectors and handed off the luggage to the undercover agents.

5.   The fake cocaine was planted on flights from the Caribbean and South America.

6.   The slayings took place after one of the victims, Mary McNeil Matthews, sold the men fake cocaine.

7.   The yearlong investigation used undercover agents and fake cocaine.

8.   Three men were convicted Friday of murdering five women in a rowhouse basement in a dispute over fake cocaine.

9.   Undercover agents used fake cocaine in a yearlong sting operation.