drug bust
Police contraband raid
A drug bust is a police raid or arrest targeting illegal drug activity.
The term combines the slang sense of bust meaning a police raid with the subject of the operation: The drug bust netted fifty kilos of cocaine.
News reports favor the term for its punchy brevity.
- narcotics traffickingIllegal drug distribution
- prosecutionPursuing legal charges
- bail hearingCourt date setting release conditions
- raidSudden armed incursion
- search and seizureExamining and confiscating property
sting operation · cartel · surveillance · confidential informant · no-knock raid · dawn raid · undercover operation · warrant · plea bargain · sentencing · confiscation · perp walk · arrest · smuggling · contraband · crack house · evidence collection · street value
- policingpatrol, police powers, arrests, police officer, arrest
- cop filmsBeverly Hills Cop, Lethal Weapon, Hot Fuzz, RoboCop, Dirty Harry
- crime newscrime scene, court reporter, court reporting, breaking news, arrest report
- tabloidsNational Enquirer, TMZ, Daily Mail, People, Globe
- Coast Guardlighthouse, gunboat, Coastie, buoys, coast guard
- drug enforcementDEA, narcotics, interdiction, trafficking, seizure
drug bustacquittal
Formal clearing of charges
case dismissed · charges dropped · mistrial · let off · cold case
drug bustwellness check
Visit confirming someone's condition
noise complaint · jaywalking ticket · parking violation · warning · community policing
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