1.   Authorities say mafia members often use drugs as well as sell them, often frittering away their profits.

2.   Herrera was considered the number three man in the Cali drug organization, and the last key mafia member still at large.

3.   In the new Russia, a mafia member is found floating naked and face down in the Moscow River and others turn up equally dead in hotel swimming pools.

4.   Then he distributed a share of that to imprisoned mafia members around the state.

5.   Though testimony never made clear the reason for the slayings, it appears the mafia members did not find what they had sought.

6.   When an athlete arrested for burglary ended up with a misdemeanor conviction and a sentence of community service, the mafia members seethed.

7.   Information gathered in an Israeli investigation of a suspected Russian mafia member could embarrass the government of Boris Yeltsin, a newspaper said Monday.

8.   Switzerland on Wednesday extradited to Italy a suspected mafia member suspected of complicity in a double murder, the federal office for police affairs said.

9.   Former members of the gray wolves have been accused of being involved in illegal activities and having relations with certain mafia members.

10.   Two other suspected Italian mafia members suspected of smuggling drugs from Turkey to Italy were arrested in Poland in February in a joint operation by Italian and Polish police.