Police said that they had broken up a major drug-trafficking ring that had a propensity toward violence.

In a statement describing Operation Pisces, Mr. Meese said it demonstrated "the validity" of the strategy of committing resources to "long-term investigations designed to dismantle major drug-trafficking rings.

Federal authorities have been investigating whether Stanford was inadvertently laundering money for a notorious Mexican drug-trafficking ring.

They said they had broken up a drug-trafficking ring that sold $300,000 to $400,000 a week of brand-name heroin throughout the Northeast.

The indictment, returned by a Federal grand jury in Los Angeles, said the American drug agent, Enrique Camarena Salazar, was killed to protect a major drug-trafficking ring that smuggled marijuana and cocaine into the United States.

They said the five were linked to a drug-trafficking ring based in Colombia and Mexico.

A mini-mall owned by a businessman who is accused of running a drug-trafficking ring has been seized in what a Federal prosecutor said was the largest such property seizure in Connecticut.

Colombia's two largest drug-trafficking rings are turning their guns on each other as part of a battle for control of the cocaine market in New York, Colombian Government officials say.

He admitted being the ringleader of a police robbery and drug-trafficking ring.

Mr. Garza, the son of migrant farm workers, was the head of a drug-trafficking ring that smuggled in tons of marijuana from Mexico, according to the federal charges against him.