Mexican anti-narcotics officials identified the Colombian, Javier Pardo Cardona, as an agent of the Medellin cartel in Mexico and a broker for cocaine distributors in the United States.

Italian officials said they had arrested Jose Duran, a Colombian they described as one of the world's most important cocaine distributors.

Stopping the production of cocaine and its subsequent transit from the areas where it is grown would cripple the supply line to cocaine distributors and dealers around the world.

Having been hired by a cocaine distributor to find a drug dealer who had stolen 30 kilograms of cocaine, Mr. Rodriguez-Moreno took captive the middleman in the deal to help him in his search.

Her plea and the circumstances were taken as indications that her son, once the dominant heroin and cocaine distributor in southeastern Queens, is now cooperating with investigators.

"The Man with the Horn" was re-written for an episode of Vice in which Collins guest-starred as a con-artist who got in trouble with cocaine distributors.

The indictment says Lewis introduced Jackson, now 26, to a female informant posing as a cocaine distributor.

Dominican criminal groups are the primary midlevel cocaine distributors; however, Colombian, Mexican, and Puerto Rican criminal groups also frequently distribute midlevel quantities of cocaine.

In 1983, federal agents say they picked up a cocaine distributor who had been fired by Paul.

He began trading cocaine supplied by Angel Diaz-Rivera and his wife Gloria, members of Colombia's notorious Medellin cartel of cocaine distributors.