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  • It would take a mind working on a very different level to consider the sentence being for four sales of pot to an undercover narc at an area high school.
  • The main concern of his 300 undercover police spies had always been sniffing out political enemies of the revolutionary government. FINGERPRINTS: Murder and the Race to Uncover the Science of Identity
  • Undercover cops set up a stall and posed as market traders to catch a gang of mobile phone thieves.
  • THE man who went undercover in an attempt to expose the bung culture in English football was keeping a low profile again yesterday. Times, Sunday Times
  • She pleaded guilty to offering to supply heroin to undercover police officers.
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  • His scam ran for three years, ending in September 2001, after a sting conducted by undercover police.
  • As a black man going undercover in whiteface, he investigates this secret world with laughable results.
  • Undercover officers found drug-making equipment used to impregnate paper with LSD.
  • A burglar alarm went off, prompting the arrival of officers who detained the two undercover cops. The Sun
  • We usually handle this by following up in undercover capacities, which is to say we may be posting as clients and or service providers. Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Local News
  • The three men were caught after an undercover surveillance operation.
  • Metro police has 24 undercover officers who are constantly on the look out for illegal activity.
  • In the programme, rich benefactors say goodbye to their luxury lifestyles and go undercover in deprived areas to find organisations that need their help. Times, Sunday Times
  • Baley interviews anyone remotely connected to anyone else and undercovers much political tention between Fastolfe and the head of the Auroran Robotics Institute, Dr. Amadiro. Archive 2010-04-01
  • I understood ACPO is non-profit and puts up the cash for national intelligence projects the Gov can't be shagged to pay for ... like the research into handling Rape Crimes. the context of the government's plans to shake up policing by putting forces – but not undercover surveillance – under the control of elected commissioners. Policing and surveillance: The inspector calls | Editorial
  • How the undercover police officers managed to make their way inside was not revealed.
  • ‘Operation Cobra’ sounds like a plot by undercover CIA operatives to assassinate a Central American despot, rather than the local constabulary's crackdown on car thieves.
  • That arrest occurred Tuesday in Spring Valley, New York, according to a DEA official, two of the agency's undercover agents make what they call a controlled delivery of marijuana to Sean James Timoney at a hotel there. CNN Transcript Nov 3, 2005
  • Occasionally the scrolls contain short cinematics _ for example I once sent a spy undercover into another faction's territory and there was a short video of him breaking into a storehouse and coming out dressed in the opposing faction's uniform. `Medieval II: Total War' presents the Middle Ages with flair
  • The illegal payments were discovered by a journalist working undercover.
  • When people are assigned overseas and then return, they have to remain undercover or else the front companies and contacts in that area are compromised. Sound Politics: Tom Maguire Wants Our Help
  • The scandal was revealed after months of undercover work by journalists.
  • It emerged that one of the bikers was an off-duty undercover police detective. Times, Sunday Times
  • Undercover council officers are to swoop on local shops in a bid to keep a killer jelly sweet out of Bolton.
  • But the most dangerous part of his career wasn’t his undercover work. Smithsonian Mag
  • As detectives closed in during an undercover operation, he crashed his car into a police vehicle.
  • We have to start having undercover security people, armed at the curbside of the terminal, inside the terminal, at the security checkpoint, at the gate, at the aircraft, at the perimeter of the airport.
  • When Gregory is shot down over France, Charlotte becomes an undercover courier whose desire to fight with the French Resistance is driven primarily by the hope of finding her new lover.
  • The computer had access to details of hundreds of officers, investigations and undercover operations. The Sun
  • He's really a cop going undercover to find the perpetrators of a series of daring hijackings.
  • Trading standards officers used pretend drunks in an undercover operation to catch out pubs. Times, Sunday Times
  • She risks life and limb every day in her job as an undercover investigator.
  • The warning came after undercover officers bought a bunch of grapes from him in imperial weight.
  • Undercover officers said the majority of members were professional City people buzzed in via a video entryphone. Evening Standard - Home
  • These are uniformed units in a hot war, not undercover operatives in a cold war. Times, Sunday Times
  • But it's great fun watching these little monsters give undercover cop Arnie the run-around.
  • Today, the state may employ undercover agents who falsely hold them-selves out as persons they are not.
  • The capture follows months of undercover police work and a surveillance operation. Times, Sunday Times
  • Their alleged comments were made to undercover reporters who claimed two other peers - Lords Moonie and Snape - were also allegedly willing to use their influence.
  • This is the haul of alcohol seized by police in an undercover operation targeting young drinkers.
  • The JTTFs are now proving good vehicles for operational coordination in raids, undercover stings, and intensive surveillance.
  • Journalists informed police who planted an undercover detective to trap Smith.
  • He worked undercover in Germany and Northern Ireland.
  • In March 1999, police began an undercover surveillance operation on the prison officer.
  • The capture follows months of undercover police work and a surveillance operation. Times, Sunday Times
  • That so many of Jun Takahashi's clothes for his Undercover label attest to the sensibility of a born designer but are adamantly geared for the street is proof that Mr. Takahashi has struck an essential balance. NYT > Home Page
  • According to "The Washington Post," the so-called viper teams will include undercover marshals, but there will also be some uniformed officers. CNN Transcript Dec 14, 2005
  • She devotes much space to Elisabeth Freeman, a white suffragist whom the NAACP dispatched to Waco immediately after the lynching to do an undercover investigation and prepare a report.
  • He has posed undercover to buy anti-personnel landmines, in contravention of the 1998 Landmines Act, and he showed the relative ease with which it was possible to get postal votes on behalf of dead people.
  • Undercover officers rushed in only to find talcum powder and not gunpowder on the agenda.
  • There are understood to be concerns that any such move might endanger retired undercover officers who used the cover names. Times, Sunday Times
  • The computer had access to details of hundreds of officers, investigations and undercover operations. The Sun
  • Aggressive policing does work, but there are problems with aggressive policing just as there are problems with officers left too long in undercover situations. Sound Politics: The Racial Politics Of Police "Use Of Force" Complaints
  • Earlier this year, Sophie was the victim of a Sunday newspaper ‘sting’ when an undercover reporter, posing as a rich Arab sheik, caught her on camera being indiscreet about other members of the Royal Family.
  • After two years of using an undercover operation, the FBI finally arrested the Cuban drug king.
  • It was, in short, the most commendable piece of undercover journalism on our televisions for some time.
  • Although these tools make it easier to spy, undercover agents still have to turn up at the right place at the right time in order to collect the information.
  • Random undercover checks at 50 MOT garages in the Durham and Cleveland area showed almost half were not up to scratch.
  • The men who arrived in the guise of drug dealers were actually undercover police officers.
  • Two full terms on undercover duties requires the highest degree of perfection. RIOT
  • IT has to be one of the worst places to go undercover. The Sun
  • Officers had tailed the gang from London during a major undercover inquiry.
  • Divorce ceremonies were pioneered about a year ago by a former salesman, Hiroki Terai, who set up a "divorce mansion" in a small undercover space in Tokyo.
  • She was a clandestine officer of the CIA and she had worked undercover around the world.
  • I decided to go undercover and find out. Times, Sunday Times
  • Spring, who did not realise the hitman was a wired undercover police officer, can be heard on the grainy recording making a chilling request for the girl to be ‘terminated’.
  • Nevertheless, McClellan calls the leak "wrong and harmful to national security" -- ignoring questions of whether Plame really was engaged in undercover operations and whether her cover long ago had been blown .... Novak Calls Out McClellan - Real Clear Politics – TIME.com
  • What arose, in its place, is a kind of moralistic, paternalistic, reactionary culture in which undercover police arrest people for being drunk – not for fighting or lewdness or driving drunk but simply for being drunk while sitting at the bar. Get Kinky for Texas Governor
  • Undercover officers, secret agents, and informants were used to purchase drugs.
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  • It was a good piece of investigative work but would it not have been better for the relevant authorities to have carried out the undercover work?
  • He was in fact an undercover officer planted by the Arapahoe County Sheriff's Office.
  • But will he finally get some credit as he volunteers to go undercover on a dangerous building site? The Sun
  • The plaza is teeming with undercover policemen
  • A federal judge upheld the undercover methods used in the case.
  • Specialised services on drugs and undercover activity were severely curtailed.
  • Two cases emphasise the need for the use of cautions in connection with police undercover operations.
  • No way Jose! the closest to undercover i've come is stalking prostitutes in chow kit in the dead of night and taking notes while my photographer tried his best to take tabloid-like shots without a flash. Norah the Gender Spy
  • Trading standards officers used pretend drunks in an undercover operation to catch out pubs. Times, Sunday Times
  • But the father works undercover and is always on the move. Times, Sunday Times
  • Undercover officers found drug-making equipment used to impregnate paper with LSD.
  • The judge said the five-year-long undercover operation went on long after police had the necessary evidence to arrest some of those eventually detained.
  • The plot concerns Texas Ranger Tommy Lee, who must go undercover as a cheerleading coach in order to protect five airheaded nymphets who have witnessed a murder.
  • During the day, he was approached at different times by three undercover police officers and each time he sold four pills to each of them.
  • Undercover narcotics officers baited pharmaceutical entrepreneurs with entreaties for Molly.
  • First, I scoped out the doe-eyed first-years fresh out of high school by going undercover as one of them.
  • In Ireland, the new arrivals were soon being tailed by police and undercover agents.
  • The investigator, who did not go undercover, interviewed employees to find out whether anyone else had complained.
  • Swanson persuaded Hubley to work undercover to capture the killer.
  • The men who arrived in the guise of drug dealers were actually undercover police officers.
  • We were watching an undercover investigation into school discipline filmed by a supply teacher.
  • Between the 21st July 1995 and the 31st November 1995 all the tablets purchased by the undercover police officers contain ephedrine procaine and ketamine, EPK.
  • When he goes undercover, he discovers flaws in the fundraising operation that could be costing millions. Times, Sunday Times
  • Based on a web-based animated series created by screenwriter John Ridley, Undercover Brother was directed by Malcolm D. Lee (cousin of Spike), who previously directed the outstanding 1999 buppie comedy/drama The Best Man.
  • For the time being, though, we're left with Undercover Brother, with its scatter-shot satire and raucous racial politics, its pops at whitey squares, black militants and sell-out buppies who listen to Michael Bolton CDs.
  • Four undercover agents in China were working to politicise the workers, to get them to revolt against their exploitation.
  • Life on Mars (“Coffee, Tea or Annie”) – Slain stewardess turns out to be the spitting image of Annie, so she goes undercover to find the murderer. Sci Fi TV Briefs – Kings Rules
  • The video was recorded in an undercover investigation at Conklin Dairy Farms Inc., said Mercy For Animals, a not-for-profit group that publicizes what it calls cruel practices in the dairy, meat and egg industries and promotes a vegan diet. Conklin Dairy Farms Video Shows Dairy Cows Being Violently Abused, Says Mercy For Animals (VIDEO)
  • But the most dangerous part of his career wasn’t his undercover work. Smithsonian Mag
  • IT has to be one of the worst places to go undercover. The Sun
  • A burglar alarm went off, prompting the arrival of officers who detained the two undercover cops. The Sun
  • Undercover officers posing as tourists flashed their expensive mobile phones as bait, waiting for the gang to strike.
  • The group of chess lovers is often clamorous, but always concentrating, with more gazers and supporters than real players; each viewer a potential undercover chess player.
  • Apparently, Ray and Ribeiro went ahead with their undercover operations, using informers and infiltrators from the underworld.
  • They prepare to strike without warning as they go undercover to retrieve two missing silver bands.
  • But will he finally get some credit as he volunteers to go undercover on a dangerous building site? The Sun
  • Not only do I hold a press card authorised by Scotland Yard, but I have carried out several undercover exposés in the past three years.
  • The undercover operative's daring role in the foiled bomb plot was supposed to have remained a secret. Times, Sunday Times
  • I want to apply to become an undercover agent.
  • Swanson persuaded Hubley to work undercover to capture the killer.
  • The police had planted undercover detectives at every entrance.
  • Officers had tailed the gang from London during a major undercover inquiry.
  • Planned Parenthood suspected that the hoaxer had ties to Live Action, an antiabortion activist group run by Lila Rose, a sometime O'Keefe partner-in-undercover-stinging. Peter Hart: Pimps and Prostitutes... Again?
  • I assume this was based on my photo, a ridiculous black-and-white “glamour” head shot think Barbizon and my profile, listing my occupation as Psychic Undercover Ass Model From The Future/Thug. Get Laid or Die Trying
  • Car companies have inflated forecourt prices by up to a third to claw back scrappage discounts, an undercover investigation has found.
  • The prosecution's case collapsed on Wednesday when undercover state troopers were unable to identify a single defendant responsible for committing a crime among mug shots of those arrested.
  • The men who arrived in the guise of drug dealers were actually undercover police officers.
  • June 17th, 2009 1: 40 pm ET my great uncle was gay and he vote for Bush because he was against gay married he was believe gays they should stay in clothed, he was undercover Frank slams Obama for 'big mistake' on Defense of Marriage Act (updated)
  • It is thought that the strike was the work of undercover political agitators.
  • Her undercover work was instead used to paint a picture of a woman who could not be trusted. The Sun
  • My own meat-eating habits changed irrevocably after a stint undercover in a chicken factory.
  • An unnamed carnival promoter who cooperated with authorities introduced an undercover FBI agent to Mr. Boyland, saying he was a family friend who owned an import-export business in Philadelphia and dabbled in real estate. Assemblyman Again Faces Bribe Charges
  • They were arrested by FBI agents in an undercover sting known as Operation Smoking Dragon.
  • Target triad personalities and activities, including youth gangs, and mount strategic undercover operations for this purpose.
  • I consider that, at least at this time, it would be conformable with this well-established practice of the courts to provide protection to the identity of the undercover operatives who are referred to in this Court's documentation.
  • Republican hack Joseph di Genova is now saying on TV that the indictment "proves" that no one in the White House knew Valerie Plame was an undercover agent so they've been exonerated. 10/28/2005
  • Undercover officers watched as he took a fare to Heathrow. Times, Sunday Times
  • In his previous programme, as part of a sketch troupe, he went undercover to expose fraud and corruption in a comic way. Times, Sunday Times
  • An armed attack on an armoured security van carrying thousands in cash was foiled by undercover police.
  • Bob Ho (Jackie Chan) is an undercover CIA superspy who decides to give up his career in espionage to settle down with his next-door neighbor and girlfriend, Gillian. 4 Movie Clips from THE SPY NEXT DOOR Starring Jackie Chan, George Lopez, Billy Ray Cyrus and Amber Valletta – Collider.com
  • Townend said he believed they were undercover police officers.
  • Undercover cops use similar gadgets but this is the first conviction involving a rank-and-file officer. The Sun
  • She recounted the harassments and blackmail threats by Atkins and his undercover colleague.
  • Motorists who drive dangerously close to cyclists as they overtake are to be targeted by undercover police on bicycles. Times, Sunday Times
  • BBI ran undercover operations through a "cutout" - that is, a go-between - in Pennsylvania, and first ran surveillance, then infiltrated, Greenpeace affiliates at Lake Charles, Louisiana, where Condea Vista, a chemical firm now owned by Sasol, had caused a giant chemical spill. The Guardian World News
  • Extra undercover officers will patrol city estates in a bid to curb the antics of youngsters who steal cars for kicks or take them for use in other crimes and then burn them out.
  • Normally, however, he was resident in London, operating as an undercover agent there.
  • Security is helped by three undercover compounds, accessed free by a swipe card. Times, Sunday Times
  • The nine-month undercover sting saw two police officers infiltrate drug users and dealers in the town and buy heroin and crack cocaine from them.
  • An undercover police operation tracked mobile phone calls and meetings between the conspirators. Times, Sunday Times
  • A student who offered herself as an escort on an Oxford-based website was taken on a date by an undercover journalist.
  • Detectives then set up an undercover operation to trap the suspects. Times, Sunday Times
  • He's an undercover sabotage agent if ever there was one.
  • Their methods are now more subtle, using the techniques of journalists involved in undercover investigations. Times, Sunday Times
  • Back in 1981, the phrase "undercover officer" took on a new meaning during the wedding of Prince William's parents. BBC News - Home
  • The cops were of course present, along with undercover men in the crowd and surveillance equipment monitoring our every move.
  • Undercover officers found drug-making equipment used to impregnate paper with LSD.
  • If playing Ensign Ro Laren in Star Trek had already cemented her place within that community, then joining Battlestar Galactica as the steely Admiral Helena Cain – complete with a complicated sapphic storyline featuring an undercover Cylon agent – sent her popularity through the roof. The Killing star Michelle Forbes: why I avoided watching Forbrydelsen
  • During the trial, two undercover police officers gave evidence from behind a screen to protect their identities.
  • An undercover police operation tracked mobile phone calls and meetings between the conspirators. Times, Sunday Times
  • Dressed in a scarlet cheongsam embroidered with dragons, the attractive mother of two told how she worked as an undercover agent for police officers acting under orders from Super Cop.
  • The danger of sting operations is that the undercover cops must walk a fine line between making the bribe attractive enough to the target person and entrapping the target person.
  • They were also charged, but cleared at trial, with the murder of an undercover police officer who had them under surveillance over the bullion raid. Times, Sunday Times
  • Recruited to the Special Operations Executive, she requests to be sent to France as an undercover agent to trace her RAF pilot lover, shot down on a mission.
  • He said ta-ra to his girlfriend and his dear old mum, and went undercover.
  • With agents going undercover, state and local police coordinate their online activities with the Secret Service, FBI and other federal agencies in a strategy known as "deconfliction" to keep out of each other's way. KETV.com - Local News
  • But neither one of these two fine Americans told me that she was an undercover operative at the CIA.
  • THE man who went undercover in an attempt to expose the bung culture in English football was keeping a low profile again yesterday. Times, Sunday Times
  • Detectives say a number of thieves have tried - unsuccessfully - to mug undercover officers.
  • The undercover agents went to the rendezvous knowing that it might be a trap.
  • The truth, however, was that what I did as an undercover and a casemaker I did not do to impress my bosses or anyone else. Dancing with the Devil
  • Students realized their activist gathering had been "infiltrated" after an undercover officer of UWPD showed up to their meeting. University Of Washington Police Accused Of SPYING On Student Group
  • A drug dealer who sold wraps of heroin to undercover detectives has been jailed for three years.
  • Then she could relish in the fact that she's the world greatest undercover narcotics officer.
  • She risks life and limb every day in her job as an undercover investigator.
  • The court heard that undercover officers had bugged his phone as they investigated a number of allegations which did not lead to criminal charges.
  • Undercover officers were sent in to gather information, and they gave evidence in court from behind screens to protect their identities.
  • The space between the front bumper and the rear edge of the engine undercover are designed to compress the airflow.
  • Undercover officers watched as he took a fare to Heathrow. Times, Sunday Times
  • A trapper who caught wild birds in the woods around Ongar was convicted and fined £3,000 after an elaborate undercover operation involving the police and the RSPCA.
  • Grahame appears as the moll of a local crime boss, while William Bendix also co-stars as an undercover cop. Film Noir Cinema: Ray of Night « Screaming Blue Reviews
  • Not attached to any particular group, but the idea of going in undercover and eventually putting your plan into effect, through which you may be revealed (either through discovery or death) or not (failure or total success) … …. leftover Let’s retire this phrase before it starts « Dating Jesus
  • Police were not welcome in this sort of place, and even undercover ones could be sniffed out by this crowd more efficiently than by a pack of blood hounds.
  • Undercover bird There are creatures that are always with us and which are more or less invisible. Times, Sunday Times
  • Sir James needed a man to run his political affairs, to manage the undercover campaigns of entertainment and bribery.
  • Holly, cherry laurel, hawthorn and yew provide undercover.
  • - a swarm of insects that attack plants; "a plague of grasshoppers" swarm - be teeming, be abuzz; "The garden was swarming with bees"; "The plaza is teeming with undercover policemen"; "her mind pullulated with worries Word of the Day
  • His scam ran for three years, ending in September 2001, after a sting conducted by undercover police.
  • During the trial, two undercover police officers gave evidence from behind a screen to protect their identities.
  • The Iraqi undercover cop identifies the suspected moneyman and he pistol-whips him.
  • The FBI placed an undercover agent in a ring of anti-government anarchists who called themselves DOI, Day of Inclement or hostile weather.
  • The main concern of his 300 undercover police spies had always been sniffing out political enemies of the revolutionary government. FINGERPRINTS: Murder and the Race to Uncover the Science of Identity
  • Undercover cops are told they may need to go without a helmet to avoid being rumbled. The Sun
  • An undercover police officer had recorded conversations with both men.
  • The scam was only rumbled in September 2001, following an undercover police operation.
  • In addition, Tom's is going to welcome its own undercover news hound, Scooby McKay.
  • Some companies routinely bring in undercover operatives every six to 12 months, Kimmons said.
  • A federal judge upheld the undercover Methods: Used in the case.
  • The five defendants in the case, owners and executives of small military-equipment companies, were among 22 people charged in 2009 in connection with a purported scheme to pay a $1.5 million bribe to the Gabonese defense minister in return for what undercover investigators said was a $15 million contract to outfit his country's national guard. Jury Clears Two Businessmen in 'Sting' Case on Bribery
  • Planned Parenthood suspected that the hoaxer had ties to Live Action, an antiabortion activist group run by Lila Rose, a sometime O'Keefe partner-in-undercover-stinging. Peter Hart: Pimps and Prostitutes... Again?
  • Undercover operations are generally structured in such a way as to create free-standing conspiracies that do not involve the material participation of the informant.
  • It often accompanies me on research trips, taking down my on-the-spot impressions of the street in Rome where Morse lived, my undercover dictation of some letter displayed for sale in a manuscript dealer's shop.
  • One is a police cadet sent on an undercover mission so deep that only two people in the Hong Kong police force know that he isn't a disgraced cop who has joined the Triads.
  • Two undercover officers purporting to be dealers infiltrated the gang.
  • Unless perhaps you were a copper going undercover.
  • Les knew enough to be cautious, he sure as hell didn't want to wind up talking to a narc. or an undercover cop.
  • He pointed to a 2008 undercover recording of Blagojevich telling his brother, Robert, then his campaign finance chief, that if he appointed Jackson, "some of this stuff has to start happening now." catface at 7:16 AM December 07, 2011 News - chicagotribune.com
  • Second day in a row working undercover at the turkey farm. The Sun
  • A federal judge upheld the undercover Methods: Used in the case.
  • In this photo, the man who always boasted that cops could never infiltrate his gang was actually posing with several undercover agents.

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