"Leaving aside China in the 19th century, no other country has produced so much narcotics in the past 100 years".
Undercover officers even make street-level egg buys, much like narcotics detectives buying marijuana or cocaine, in hopes of putting pressure on middlemen to lead them to bigger dealers.
I believe now, and believed at the time, that my hospital and its providers made the choices I would have made, given the same information they had — up to and including both the withholding of the much-desired narcotics during one birth, and the sudden emergency Caesarean section at the end of another.
The GKNB is suspected of controlling much of the narcotics trade.
But I didn't have much experience with narcotics for outpatients.
Fearing a fatal encounter with paprika, Ms. Kysel's parents and grandparents chipped in to buy her an allergy-detection dog, which works much like a narcotics-sniffing dog.
"Caviar smuggling is not that much different from narcotics smuggling," said Richard A. Udell, a senior trial lawyer at the Justice Department who prosecuted two of the major cases.
A third of the money earmarked by the Police Department for an ambitious, but much criticized, anti-narcotics initiative known as Operation Condor will be used instead to pay for increased uniformed patrols pursuing a variety of offenses, officials said yesterday.
The episode also focuses on what residents, city officials and the Drug Enforcement Administration are doing to fight back, including the Chicago Police Department's "surge" after the death of Ms. Pendleton and the drug agency's new offensive to stem the tide of narcotics, much of it heroin, flowing into the region from Mexico.
A third of the overtime money earmarked for an ambitious, but much criticized, anti-narcotics initiative known as Operation Condor will be used instead to pay for increased uniformed patrols that will pursue a variety of other offenses, police officials said yesterday.
