buy-and-bust operation

The buy-and-bust operation was actually part of a murder investigation, the police say.

He was sent there after being arrested in May 1998 for selling drugs to an undercover police officer during a buy-and-bust operation.

Buy-and-bust operations became more difficult to perform, Sergeant Flynn explained.

He was killed in the midst of what many consider the most dangerous work police do: what they call undercover buy-and-bust operations.

The buy-and-bust operation had been a part of an investigation into weapons sales that had been going on since January.

A 21-year-old man was shot by the police last night during a buy-and-bust operation on Staten Island, the police said.

The officers mill through the streets, stopping cars, checking out-of-town licenses, doing buy-and-bust operations.

The shooting underscored the dangers in undercover buy-and-bust operations, which are a staple of police efforts to crack down on the illegal drug trade.

The two men worked together on a buy-and-bust operation lasting from the afternoon until early the next morning, Mr. Trapani said.

Under the new drug plan, the Police Department will create drug and gun teams that will conduct buy-and-bust operations.

Mr. Giuliani would also step up undercover buy-and-bust operations, arguing that such arrests give law-abiding citizens a greater sense of security.

Of the 115 health departments in the state, 84 have agreed to conduct buy-and-bust operations, but 22 have declined, state health officials said Friday.

They said she was abusive to officers during a buy-and-bust operation outside 131 Essex Street on the Lower East Side.

In fact, they had been doomed to four weeks of listening to an endless parade of undercover police officers testify about virtually interchangeable buy-and-bust operations.

Detective Carrington, 28, was killed on Monday after a buy-and-bust operation in a Morris Heights apartment building went bad, the police said.

A 32-year-old Brooklyn man died in the custody of narcotics officers yesterday shortly after having been arrested during a buy-and-bust operation near Prospect Park, police officials said.

In came a task force of uniformed officers, squads of plainclothes officers and teams of anti-drug officers for buy-and-bust operations.

One of 5,000 buy-and-bust operations every year, yesterday's operation by a four-member team of the Brooklyn North Narcotics unit began at 1:40 A.M.

A Search Warrant Mr. Ward said the two undercover officers had had a search warrant for the buy-and-bust operation.

While calling Detective Carrington's death a tragedy, Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani fiercely defended the value of the buy-and-bust operations.

They also contend that the stepped-up buy-and-bust operations, performed by undercover officers, have added to the often hostile relationships between police and residents of black and Latino neighborhoods.

Two uniformed police officers testifying at a hearing refused to name the three undercover detectives who aided in the buy-and-bust operation that led to Mr. Joseph's arrest.

Earlier Tuesday night, an undercover narcotics officer, 26-year-old Christopher Hoban, was slain when a man suspected of being a drug dealer fired at him in a buy-and-bust operation.

The shootout took place shortly before 7 P.M. following a buy-and-bust operation at two buildings on Pacific Street, a police spokesman, Officer Fred Weiner, said.

At the same time, the police will target more mid-level drug dealers and suppliers and conduct undercover buy-and-bust operations on the weekends, instead of running them mostly during the week.