The property sales, regulators say, could well provide organized crime with a comparatively easy way to launder profits from illegal activities, like narcotics sales.
They were charged with felony counts of narcotics sales, which carry a maximum penalty of life imprisonment.
He was on parole at the time for narcotics sales and had been arrested several times on drug dealing charges.
Today 38th Street relies almost exclusively on narcotics sales and distribution as its only source of revenue.
For years the Bandidos were satisfied with local meth and narcotics sales, and a few bucks from prostitution.
We do inspections to make sure no alcohol is served and to monitor narcotics sales and use.
In many of the cases, investigators say, the killings seem less like gang warfare, and more like violence stemming from narcotics sales.
Her immediate suggestion has to do with fighting narcotics sales in the places she thinks most important: schools and the streets near them.
The District of Columbia has abandoned plans for a curfew on teen-agers to help reduce narcotics sales and drug-related violence.
The police said an investigation had uncovered substantial evidence that the company had been used to legitimize huge profits from narcotics sales by organized crime.