SYRACUSE -- A Syracuse Bricktown gang member will spend the next five years in prison.

20-year-old Anthony Braswell pleaded guilty to a RICO conspiracy charge.

Braswell was indicted along with 13 others, accused of conspiring to exploit their membership in the Bricktown Gang to engage in a pattern of racketeering activity, including multiple acts of murder, drug trafficking and robbery.

Four other defendants have already pleaded guilty in the case. Charges against the others are still pending.

Federal prosecutors say the gang operated in Syracuse since at least 2000. The gang members are accused of maintaining a specific geographic territory in Syracuse where only gang members could sell crack cocaine, cocaine and marijuana. They also say the group used violence to protect their drug territory, got drugs from suppliers in New York City and elsewhere and used violence to preserve their stature in the gang community. They are also accused of using violence to sell drugs, carrying guns and using hand signs, wearing blue colored bandanas and getting tattoos to signify their gang membership.

Investigators say the group is linked to multiple acts of violence, including two instances of knife violence, two murders, eight other shootings, seven acts of gun possession, twelve acts of crack distribution and/or possession with the intent to sell crack and a major gang assault that happened in January 2011 at the Denny's restaurant on Erie Boulevard in DeWitt.

Member Saquan Evans was just recently convicted of killing a 20-month-old boy. Rashad Walker, Jr. was shot while in his car seat on Coolidge Avenue.

Prosecutors say two other gang members, Jarrell Williams and Ernest Hester, shot and killed Anthony Ford along the 1600 block of East Fayette Street in September 2007.

As for Braswell, he will spend five years on supervised release when he's released from prison.