Sentence examples for trafficking enterprise from inspiring English sources

In addition to the confidential informers, prosecutors built the case using wiretaps the Jamaican authorities had been collecting since 2004, when they started eavesdropping on Mr. Coke's cellphone conversations and on those of other members of his drug trafficking enterprise, according to a court filing.

But to the lawyers for Mr. Layne and four co-defendants, the group, while perhaps selling drugs, was anything but a structured trafficking enterprise.

"Most people, including me," he wrote in a 2010 decision, "agree that the kingpins, masterminds and midlevel managers of drug trafficking enterprises deserve severe punishment".

The U.S. Attorneys involved in Friday's press conference justified their actions by accusing numerous dispensaries of acting as fronts for large-scale, for-profit drug trafficking enterprises.

But it has morphed into a powerful cocaine-trafficking enterprise that the Colombian authorities estimate transports much of the cocaine that reaches American shores.

Judge Katherine B. Forrest called Ulbricht the "kingpin of a worldwide digital drug-trafficking enterprise".

A Guzmán trial could offer a unique window into the operations of the largest drug-trafficking enterprise in the Americas.

In February, a jury in a federal court in Manhattan found Ulbricht, who went by the alias "Dread Pirate Roberts", guilty on seven counts related to the drug marketplace, including running a narcotics-trafficking enterprise, money laundering and computer hacking.

The Obama Administration has already expressed dismay that WikiLeaks publicized the documents, but a leak informing us that our tax dollars may be being used as seed money for a protection racket associated with a narcotics-trafficking enterprise is a good leak to have.

Guzmán presided over one of the world's most extensive criminal enterprises, trafficking cocaine on almost every continent, and dominating the narcotics trade in the US.

He was arrested in a library in San Francisco in October 2013, and charged with drug trafficking, criminal enterprise, aiding and abetting distribution of drugs over the internet, computer hacking and money laundering.