1.   Already, he said, the authorities have cracked several food stamp trafficking rings in Texas.

2.   Esther J. Henry, they discovered, was an alias for Rose M. Smith, who is believed to be a foot soldier for a large Jamaican trafficking ring.

3.   Federal agents try to use arrested couriers to trace the drugs back to the trafficking rings.

4.   The authorities called three of them middle-level managers of the trafficking ring.

5.   The crack the Staten Island rings do not sell is often bartered for marijuana sold by trafficking rings that import it from Mexico, investigators say.

6.   Police broke up a drug trafficking ring that used a government-backed drug rehabilitation center as a front for selling cocaine and heroin.

7.   Police broke up a human trafficking ring that forced women into prostitution in the Czech Republic, the CTK news agency reported Saturday.

8.   Amezcua Contreras and his two brothers, Jesus and Luis, allegedly run a metamphetamine production and trafficking ring based in the western city of Guadalajara.

9.   Amezcua Contreras and his two brothers, Jesus and Luis, are believed to run a metamphetamine production and trafficking ring based in the western city of Guadalajara.

10.   An Italian accused of managing the finances of a major Colombia heroin trafficking ring was extradited Sunday to stand trial in the United States, authorities said.