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Feds Bust Hollywood Drug Ring That Used Charter Planes

(Nov. 16) -- Two top executives of a California entertainment company and a DJ who spun records at actor Eddie Murphy's wedding in 2008 were among 14 people indicted today for their alleged role in a Hollywood-based drug ring that shipped hundreds of pounds of cocaine on chartered jets from Los Angeles to Baltimore. A...

Crooked NYPD Detective Gets 15 Years Behind Bars

(June 11) -- A U.S. district judge in Brooklyn has sentenced a veteran New York Police Department detective to more than a decade behind bars for helping to protect a drug lord and his expansive coke ring from the law. Luis M. Batista, 37, was sentenced to 15 years' in prison on Thursday for convictions involving...

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Organized crime or criminal organizations are transnational, national, or local groupings of highly centralized enterprises run by criminals for the purpose of engaging in illegal activity, most commonly for monetary profit.

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