But that only made the street-level dealers all the more desperate to advance.

Others emphasized a need to also go after the street-level dealers whose illegal wares are seemingly ubiquitous, in plain view of the police and other enforcement officials.

Narcotics investigators assert that some street-level dealers sell crack and heroin for stamps although they charge $5 or $10 above usual prices.

Jones ran roughshod over the street-level dealers and the shooting galleries of the roach-infested slums.

In the middle of the day, I met with a street-level dealer and "talked trash" with him.

Residents interviewed said there are not as many street-level dealers as there used to be.

Jesse has been seeing Andrea through his rehab sessions, but soon discovers that her younger brother Tomas killed Combo on orders of Gus' street-level dealers.

"They were street-level dealers at best...even if you caught them with the goods, it wasn't going to make any difference."

The measure, the state's first designed specifically to combat crack, is aimed at street-level dealers in the increasingly violent crack trade.

They also sold franchises to street-level dealers, supplying them with crack and protection for a set fee.