Specific details of the case were sealed under court order at that time because an ongoing investigation was being conducted by the FBI and Drug Enforcement Administration, and it was stated that the release of information could have had an "adverse result" upon the investigation.
In March 2013, eight alleged gang members and associates appeared in federal court facing charges based on a "major crack cocaine investigation". This conviction received a five-year prison sentence, which was added on to an eight-year sentence Christie was already serving for a previous weapon and drug conviction. In June 2011, Robert "Snoop" Christie pleaded guilty to a weapons charge in a plea bargain. After these initial arrests, at least another 30 arrests were made. In July 2006, approximately 50 members of the gang were arrested as an outcome of a significant police operation called "Operation Nine Connect". FBI, DEA, and ATF as well as various other gang task forces in the United States. The gang has been investigated by the U.S. currency and using counterfeit currency to "finance wholesale drug purchases". Further allegations include dealing in counterfeit U.S. The gang was also allegedly involved in the distribution of illegal drugs, including heroin, cocaine, crack, ecstasy, marijuana and prescription painkillers in these areas. It has allegedly been engaged in the sex trafficking of women and racketeering in Virginia, New York, North Carolina, Baltimore, New Jersey and other areas.
Disadvantaged people including the homeless, prostitutes and children were allegedly used to sell the narcotics for the gang.
They based their drug selling business in uninhabited buildings in the vicinity of Lenox Avenue. The gang initially sold various narcotics including heroin, crack cocaine and PCP throughout Harlem. The gang was established in 1993 at the Rikers Island jail complex in New York City.