Sentence examples for worth of ecstasy from inspiring English sources
A woman was arrested Saturday at Newark International Airport and accused of trying to smuggle $1 million worth of Ecstasy pills secreted in hidden luggage compartments.
Customs & Excise seized more than £500m worth of smuggled drugs in 1996 (and several times that amount are thought to have got through), and around £250m worth of ecstasy was sold in Britain last year.
A three-month investigation also led to the discovery of $2.8 million worth of Ecstasy, one of the largest seizures of the drug ever, the United States attorney Sally Quillian Yates said.
A drug-dealing network run by Israelis in Queens who sold millions of dollars worth of Ecstasy, the illegal stimulant of choice in nightclubs, was broken up with the arrest of most of its members, law enforcement officials said yesterday.
Federal prosecutors charged 15 men yesterday, including a man they called the head bouncer at the Sound Factory, a midtown nightclub, in a scheme to sell thousands of dollars worth of Ecstasy and other drugs inside the Manhattan club and at other locations.
They come to understand that everything has a price, through their encounters with young Gary David Moorstt) who has been so emotionally and physically abused by his stepfather that he wants to be owned, and a seedy porn and drugs merchant (Ashley McGuire) who demands money with menaces when Robbie gives away £3,000 worth of ecstasy to anyone good-looking who asks.
A man who was standing outside a Hoboken PATH station with a shopping bag containing $1 million worth of the drug Ecstasy has been arrested, the police said.
Kirk Johnson (NYT BROOKLYNN: DRUG DEALERS ARRESTED Seventeen people were charged yesterday with being part of two related gangs that sold about $25 million worth of the drug Ecstasy in Brooklyn, Manhattan, the Hamptons and Arizona in the last year.
Between 1997 and 2007 Warren was locked up in Holland's highest security jail after being found guilty of conspiring to import £100m worth of cocaine, heroin, ecstasy and cannabis, as well as firearms offences.
ATLANTA — A United States Customs agent was charged Thursday with trying to smuggle large quantities of drug money and guns through Atlanta's busy airport in a case that led undercover federal investigators to millions of dollars' worth of the drug Ecstasy.
Last summer, authorities in Guinea, a country neighboring Guinea-Bissau that is widely viewed as a virtual narcostate, alerted the U.N. drug office to elaborate laboratories and a vast cache of "precursor" chemicals, which could have been used to manufacture as much as $170 million worth of the drug Ecstasy, as well as to refine cocaine.
