Editing Organized crime (section)

==Drug and smuggling rings==
Smuggling is a behavior that has occurred ever since there were laws or a moral code that forbade access to a specific person or object. At the core of any [[smuggling organization]] is the economic relationship between [[supply and demand]]. From the organization's point of view, the issues are what the consumer wants, and how much the consumer is willing to pay the smuggler or smuggling organization to obtain it.

*North American drug rings
**[[Juan Garza|Garza organization]]
**[[Jesse James Hollywood]]'s drug ring
**[[The Brotherhood of Eternal Love]]<ref name="dea">{{cite web|url=http://www.justice.gov/dea/pubs/history/history_part1.pdf |title=DEA History Book, Part 1 |format=PDF |date= |accessdate=2012-02-19}}</ref>
**[[Black Tuna Gang]]<ref name="gangstersencyclopedia"/><ref name="dea"/>
**[[Andrew C. Thornton II|The Company]]<ref name="company">{{cite web|url=http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/gangsters_outlaws/gang/dd_fall_of_andrew_c_thornton_ii_the_company/5.html |title=Tru-tv Crime Library - "The Company" Drug Smuggling Ring |publisher=Trutv.com |date=1978-11-21 |accessdate=2012-02-19}}</ref>
**[[George Jung|Jung organization]]<ref name="dea"/>
**[[Ciro Mancuso|Mancuso organization]]<ref>{{cite web|last=Ferchland |first=William |url=http://www.tahoedailytribune.com/article/20020823/NEWS/208230108 |title=Drug smuggler's money goes to agencies |publisher=Tahoe Daily Tribune |date=2002-08-23 |accessdate=2012-02-19}}</ref>
**[[Jamiel Chagra|Chagra organization]]<ref name="company"/>
**[[Ricky Ross (drug trafficker)|"Freeway" Ricky Ross organization]]<ref name="bet"/>
**[[Ike Atkinson|Ike Atkinson organization]]<ref name="harlem"/>
**[[Pizza Connection Trial|Pizza Connection]]<ref name=time230484>[http://jcgi.pathfinder.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,921677,00.html Extra Cheese: Busting a pizza connection], Time Magazine, April 23, 1984</ref><ref>[http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,923697,00.html The Sicilian Connection], Time Magazine, October 15, 1984</ref>
**[[The Yogurt Connection]]<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.nytimes.com/1989/12/20/us/from-women-s-league-to-chains.html |title=From Women's League to Chains |publisher=NY Times |date=1989-12-20 |accessdate=2012-02-19}}</ref>
*England
**[[Hawkhurst Gang]]<ref name="kent">Lansberry, Frederick (2001) ''Government and politics in Kent, 1640-1914'', Boydell & Brewer, ISBN 0-85115-586-3</ref>
**[[The Aldington Gang]]<ref name="kent"/>
**[[Brian Brendon Wright]]'s drug empire<ref name="gangstersencyclopedia"/>
**[[Howard Marks]] smuggling ring<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10382987 |title=BBC News - Rhys Ifans as ex-drug baron Howard Marks on screen |publisher=Bbc.co.uk |date=2010-06-23 |accessdate=2012-02-19}}</ref>
*[[Organ trafficking]] organizations
**[[Gurgaon kidney scandal|Gurgaon organ trafficking]] network
**[[Levy-Izhak Rosenbaum]] organ trafficking network<ref>{{cite web|last=Mozgovaya |first=Natasha |url=http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/u-s-professor-i-told-fbi-about-kidney-trafficking-7-years-ago-1.280718 |title=U.S. Professor: I told FBI about kidney trafficking 7 years ago - Haaretz Daily Newspaper &#124; Israel News |publisher=Haaretz.com |date=2008-04-02 |accessdate=2012-02-19}}</ref>
**[[Organ theft in Kosovo|Drenica Group]]
*International drug rings
**[[Bali Nine]]
**[[Mr Asia]]<ref name="smack"/>
**The [[French Connection]]<ref name="gangstersencyclopedia"/><ref name="dea"/><ref name="drugs"/>
**[[Angie Sanclemente Valencia|Valencia drug ring]]
**[[James Springette]] Island Boys organization<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/newsroom/news_releases/archives/legacy/2002/112002/11062002.xml |title=Top U.S. Customs/FBI Fugitive Caught in Venezuala <nowiki>[sic]</nowiki> |publisher=CBP.gov |date= |accessdate=2012-02-19}}</ref>
*[[Rum running]] organization
**[[William S. McCoy]] organization
**[[Roy Olmstead]] organization
*[[Arms trafficking]] organizations
**[[Viktor Bout]]'s organization<ref name="mcmafia"/><ref name="gangstersencyclopedia"/>
**[[Leonid Minin]]'s organization
**[[Monzer al-Kassar]]'s organization
**[[Tomislav Damnjanovic]] organization
*[[People smuggling]]
**[[Snakeheads]] 蛇頭<ref name="traffic"/><ref name="mcmafia"/>
***[[Sister Ping]]'s organization
**[[Coyotaje]]<ref name="coyote">{{cite web|author=David Francis, Chronicle Foreign Service |url=http://articles.sfgate.com/2008-03-31/news/17169877_1_drug-cartels-mexican-drug-border-security |title=SFGate Mexican drug cartels move into human smuggling |publisher=Articles.sfgate.com |date=2008-03-31 |accessdate=2012-02-19}}</ref>
*[[Lai Changxing]] organization
*[[Tarabin bedouin#Smuggling|Bedouin smugglers]]