buy-bust
Undercover drug arrest
A buy-bust is a law enforcement operation where an undercover officer purchases drugs from a dealer, then immediately signals other officers to arrest the seller.
The term combines the two phases: the buy and the bust.
The suspect was caught in a buy-bust outside the convenience store.
Sharp wound from insect
- raidSudden armed incursion
- undercoverSecretly engaged in espionage
- narcoticsDrugs inducing sleep, numbness
- arrestSeize by law
entrapment · surveillance · informant · decoy · takedown · evidence · handcuffs · suspect
sting
Sharp wound from insect
- raidSudden armed incursion
- undercoverSecretly engaged in espionage
- narcoticsDrugs inducing sleep, numbness
arrest · entrapment · surveillance · informant · decoy · takedown · evidence · handcuffs · suspect · contraband
police
Civil law enforcement
- DEAFederal narcotics agency
- task forceTemporary goal-oriented team
- agentOne who acts independently
officer · squad · unit · anti-drug · crackdown · campaign · jurisdiction · protocol · procedure · intelligence
narcotics
Drugs inducing sleep, numbness
methamphetamine · dealer · pusher · supplier · sachet · gram · kilo · substance · illegal · trafficking
- drug enforcementDEA, narcotics, drug raid, interdiction, trafficking
- Sting Operationssting operation, undercover, decoy, bait, informant
- crime investigationdetective, whodunit, investigation, detectives, investigator
- covert operationsundercover agents, covert ops, stings, infiltration, deep cover
buy-bustmonitoring
Ongoing observation of something
intelligence gathering · harm reduction · decriminalization · community policing · crime prevention
buy, bust, buys, buying, bought, buyer, buyers, busts, busting