Galante cornered the heroin market and refused to share the profits with any of the other families.

Drug squad officers in 2003 claimed that Asian gangs were actively seeking to corner the heroin market.

The rest is smuggled out to heroin markets in Europe, usually via Turkey and the Balkans.

Drug-intelligence officials believe that it also accounts now for perhaps 20 percent of the heroin market in the United States.

He had connections with the Five Families, holding an enormous monopoly on the heroin market in Manhattan.

Though crack, a smokable form of cocaine, dominated many traditional heroin markets during the Eighties, heroin is making a comeback.

There is no direct evidence that a similar cycle has begun in the long-dormant heroin market.

The use of crack-cocaine, combined with the existing heroin market, caused many residents to flee.

As of 1983, he was controlling the heroin market in Diyarbakır and sale of heroin abroad.

Though Chinese smugglers dominate the city's heroin market, Chinatown gangs frown upon the use of drugs by their members, police officials said.