BACLIFF, Texas -- It was in the mid-1990s, just a few blocks away from Galveston Bay, that a teen formed a gang that called itself the 4^th Street Bloods. Local law enforcement officials said the gang became a major drug operation in Galveston County distributing crack and crystal meth.

The gang would operate out of motel rooms, apartments and houses in Bacliff.

Now nearly 20 years after their founding, 11 gang members have been hit with federal indictments. On Tuesday the FBI, along with Galveston County authorities, swept into the community of Bacliff to arrest the gang members.

“Violent drug gangs have no place in our community,” said FBI Special Agent Mike Anderson, who heads criminal investigations for the FBI office in Houston.

But two of the suspected drug dealers slipped through the law enforcement net.

Christian Louis Combs, 33, has a tattoo on his back that reads “Kliff Side,” and another tattoo on his chest that reads, “4400 BLK Playa for Life.”

The other wanted gang member is Joseph Darrell Martinez, 26, who goes by the nickname Peanut.

Authorities said both men have ties to the Bacliff and San Leon communities of Galveston County as well as Baytown. There is also the possibility they fled to either Dallas or Tennessee, said the FBI.

But with nine already in custody and the confiscation of the gang’s bases of operation and cell phones, the 4^th Street Bloods are out of business.

At least for now.