1.   And when the police shut down five businesses on Broadway a few weeks ago for harboring drug activity, several passers-by quietly expressed their gratitude, he said.

2.   A resident of Phipps Plaza said that over the last year, police had shut storefronts in a crackdown on drug dealing and gambling.

3.   He was the second San Antonio man arrested since Thursday, when police shut down Nitelife USA, the Internet home page of the alleged prostitution business.

4.   In Oakland, Calif., the same health emergency was declared, but police routinely shut down exchanges and operators are arrested and prosecuted.

5.   In the last two weeks, the Colombian police have shut down two huge cocaine-refining laboratories in the Andean jungles.

6.   On either side of his store are empty shops, where the police have shut down drug operations.

7.   Over the weekend, riots broke out in Jakarta after police shut down the headquarters of an opposition party in a crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrations.

8.   Police first shut down the southbound lanes.

9.   Police shut down an alternative cities summit, arousing protests from human rights groups.

10.   Police also shut the lower bridge to vehicles as a safety measure.