For the decade that ended last spring, the DeKalb Avenue Crew operated as a vast and violent drug organization that collected some $5 million in drug money and killed at least four people in the process, according to a federal indictment released two weeks ago.

A total of 22 members of the Crew were indicted on 35 charges of murder, racketeering, armed robbery, attempted robbery, firearms offenses and drug conspiracy. All of them, with the exception of Carmen Moore, who remains at large, have been arrested and placed in federal custody, according to the office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, which is prosecuting the case.

Of those indicted, nine of them – Bobby Saunders, Bobby Moore, Jr., Tyrone Moore, Hisan Lee, Hibah Lee, Andre Davidson, Selbourne Waite, Delroy Lee and Robert Morrison — appear to form the inner core of the DeKalb Avenue Crew, as they were singled out and specifically charged with “racketeering and conspiracy to commit racketeering for their participation and management of the DeKalb Avenue Crew.”

All 22 are facing drug charges for “conspiring to sell large quantities of crack cocaine, powder cocaine and marijuana in the vicinity of 213th Street and DeKalb Avenue,” a small triangle of residences wedged between Woodlawn Cemetery and Van Cortlandt Park.

While the Crew sold drugs in the Norwood area, according to the indictment, they also ventured east to the neighborhoods of Wakefield and Eastchester (mostly near Seton Falls Park) to violently rob people they believed held drugs or drug money.

The beginning of the indictment reads like a character list for The Wire, HBO’s show about urban drug trade in Baltimore. Every suspect has a catchy alias. There’s “Pops,” “Puss,” “Ice,” “O Dog,” “Silky,” “X Box,” and “Ace,” just to name a few.

U.S. Attorney Michael Garcia said the arrests were the result of the combined effort of a handful of federal enforcement agencies as well as the New York City Police Department.