TAMPA — The term “skudda” is slang for “let’s get it.” Tampa police interpret it as “making money whatever way possible.”

That is exactly what the 200 Skudda gang did, authorities say, as the members committed acts of racketeering, identity theft, credit card fraud, illegally buying weapons, intimidating witnesses and selling drugs from Hillsborough County to Georgia.

A two-year investigation of the gang has resulted in nine arrests, Tampa Police Chief Brian Dugan announced Tuesday.

More arrests will follow, police said.

The gang’s fraud netted up to 100 victims, police said. The members acted without fear of getting caught, the chief said, rapping about their crimes and their contempt for the law via a rap label they set up in Georgia.

“It gave them a sense of invincibility,” Dugan said. “But now that we’ve made arrests, and we’ll make more, that type of bravado is about to come to an end.”

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The gang is also connected to the 2016 death of a 17-year-old killed in a shootout at an E Busch Boulevard motel, the chief said. They were also involved in a gang feud that saw 200 Skudda members shoot two members of a rival gang in Sulphur Springs in an April 2, 2017 incident. Another shooting incident in May 2017 led police to start uncovering the gang’s activities.

“We were investigating a straight-forward drug deal gone bad, and as we were looking into it we started running into all this fraud and all these other characters," said police spokesman Steve Hegarty.

Police called the investigation Operation It Was All A Dream after a lyric in Notorious B.I.G.'s 1994 hit Juicy.

Kelly Stacy Jr., 17, was shot and killed in 2016 at a motel in E Busch Boulevard. [Courtesy of Stacy family] [ ANASTASIA DAWSON | Family photo ]

The gang pulled off a number of common financial scams, police said, using personal information and credit card numbers found online and used them to make illicit purchases. Police also learned of links to past crimes that had already been resolved in the court system.

“During our investigation we learned that in previous cases, in other shooting investigations, they have intimidated witnesses to prevent them from testifying against them in other cases,” said Tampa police Officer Steve Monforti, who works in the department’s violent crime bureau.

In one case, a shooting victim had to move to another state.

“Unfortunately that specific case was already resolved," Monforti said, "and the people have already served shortened prison terms because of the witness intimidation.”

These arrests also shed new light on an old murder case, that of 17-year-old Kelly Stacy Jr., who was shot and killed Oct. 30, 2016. He and a friend tried to buy $300 worth of marijuana using counterfeit $100 bills, according to court records. Gunshots ensued, and in the chaos Stacy ended up being shot by his own friend.

Turns out, police said, the drug deal was with members of 200 Skudda who were staying at the hotel. Now one of the members, Joshua Damian Green, 32, has been charged with third-degree murder in that incident because he took part in criminal acts that led to Stacy’s death, police said.

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A sign of how successful the gang’s scams were, police said, was the production value of their rap videos.

“You can tell that the source of income was getting bigger over the years,” Officer Kris Scull said, “Their videos became better and better.”

Tampa police worked on the operation with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, the U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force, the Florida Attorney General’s Office, the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office and in Georgia, the Rockdale County Sheriff’s Office and the Conyers Police Department.

“The members of this gang have been hellbent on committing serious crimes,” said Special Agent in Charge Mark Brutnell of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement’s Tampa office.

One arrest was made in Georgia and the other eight were arrested in Hillsborough County. Here’s a list of who was arrested:

• Kendric Easley Brown, 28, faces a charge of conspiracy to engage in racketeering.

• Rolando Luis Brown, 29, faces charges of racketeering, conspiracy to engage in racketeering and being a felon in possession of a firearm.

• Cortez D’Mond Butler, 29, faces charges of racketeering, conspiracy to engage in racketeering and scheme to defraud.

• Alijawane Nathaniel Green, 34, faces charges of racketeering and conspiracy to engage in racketeering.

• Joshua Damian Green, 32, faces charges of third-degree murder, racketeering, conspiracy to engage in racketeering, criminal use of personal identification and scheme to defraud.

• Xavier Marshall, 29, faces a charge of conspiracy to engage in racketeering.

• D’Andre Marquis Mattear-Lofton, 22, faces charges of racketeering and conspiracy to engage in racketeering.

• Leroy Livingston Johnson, 27, faces a charge of conspiracy to engage in racketeering.

• Joshua Tarell Washington, 28, faces a charge of conspiracy to engage in racketeering.