kingpin

The inquiry, known as the Madlanga Commission, began in September 2025 and has heard accusations that Sibiya received a gift of 20 impalas from an alleged criminal kingpin in exchange for a police contract.

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026

Now, with its Red Sea bypass route disrupted by attacks, the world’s oil kingpin is having to return to the waterway it was trying to avoid in the first place.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

In 2019, a Thai court dismissed the case against suspected wildlife trafficking kingpin Boonchai Bach.

From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026

The messages carry the return address of ADX Florence, the maximum-security federal prison in Colorado where the onetime kingpin is housed in strict isolation.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2026

Francis is wide awake and wearing his favorite-slash-only bathrobe, like he’s some kingpin whose business makes him stacks on stacks of money instead of a technician spending the little he makes on us.

From "They Both Die at the End" by Adam Silvera

Should the same be visited on cyber kingpins?

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 2026

Following an unexpected meeting of minds between presidents Donald Trump and Gustavo Petro, three Colombian drug kingpins find themselves the target of a joint US-Colombia manhunt.

From Barron's ● Feb. 4, 2026

He could sanction Mexican officials suspected of complicity with kingpins.

From Slate ● Nov. 4, 2025

It sounded a lot like López Obrador’s “Hugs not bullets” strategy — attacking the root causes of crime instead of trying to take down cartel kingpins.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 1, 2024

Like kingpins, one steel tier lammed into another, then they all crashed to the floor with a sound as of the roof falling.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright