After Huntress joined the Birds of Prey, Richard Dragon aided her in fighting the Twelve Brothers in Silk, an Asian martial arts squad that provided protection to a major heroin distributor.

Colombian and Mexican DTOs and criminal groups as well as Dominican, Nigerian, and Asian criminal groups are the primary wholesale-level heroin distributors in the country.

In Florida and Puerto Rico, where South American heroin also is the predominant type, Puerto Rican criminal groups are dominant retail-level heroin distributors.

Members of street gangs such as Gangster Disciples, Vice Lords, and Latin Kings are the primary retail-level heroin distributors in the Great Lakes region, particularly in Chicago.

Mazzara was a Sicilian mafioso, and a key heroin distributor, whose palm print was found on wrapping of a kilo of heroin purchased by an undercover agent.

Kennedy gave a stiff, 13-year sentence to a heroin distributor in 1994, and was quoted as saying, "[m]any of the ills of society, the destruction of our societal fabric, comes because of the illicit use of drugs".

Isn't the question a bit like "Why aren't more heroin distributors handing themselves in?"

Andrew J. Maloney, the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, said Mr. Eng is considered the area's largest heroin distributor.

By tracking down heroin distributors, Kakihara eventually finds one of Jii-sans crew members, Inoue.

But law-enforcement officials say they believe that he was once one of the city's biggest heroin distributors.