On October 21, 2005, 21 members of two narcotics organizations operating on Post Avenue between Dyckman and Academy Avenues in Upper Manhattan were indicted on charges stemming from cocaine and marijuana sales. In the first nine-months of 2005, the four-block strip was the site of 11 shootings and four homicides; and accounted for 10 percent of all narcotics complaints received by the Police Department's Manhattan North Narcotics. One of the investigations identified a network involving both multi-ounce quantities of cocaine and high-volume marijuana street sales. It culminated in a 19-count indictment charging 16 individuals with Conspiracy, Criminal Sale of a Controlled Substance and Criminal Sale of Marijuana. The second probe targeted eight individuals who dealt with large quantities of marijuana on Post Avenue. Buyers clogged the avenue in doubled-parked cars and marijuana was openly sold on the street. The area came to be known as "Home of the Haze" because of the wide availability of "purple haze," an extremely potent marijuana that sells for as much as $6,000 a pound.