YOUNGSTOWN — Nine men have been indicted federally on allegations that they conspired to possess and distribute at least five kilograms of cocaine and at least 28 grams of crack cocaine, selling drugs in the Youngstown area that came from Puerto Rico.

The defendants are John Pena-Vazquez, Jose Molina-Torres, Francisco Rosado-Cordero, Jose Cintron-Feliciano, Christopher Ramos-Burgos, Erick Rosa-Martinez, Wilfredo Delgado-Mulero, Brendan Wolford and Edwin Cintron-Baez.

They are charged with offenses such as conspiracy to possess drugs with intent to distribute, and use of a communications device in furtherance of a drug-trafficking crime.

The case is assigned to Judge Dan A. Polster in U.S. District Court in Cleveland.

Some of the men indicted appeared for arraignment Wednesday. Bond was set at $20,000 for Delgado-Mulero during his arraignment. The defendants apparently are in custody.

The indictment was sealed June 23 until the defendants were in custody, according to court documents. The indictment was unsealed Wednesday.

The 37-page indictment lays out the details of the enterprise, which the government alleges operated from about April 2020 until December 2021.

It alleges that Rosado-Cordero and Rosa-Martinez supplied cocaine to Pena-Vazquez for distribution in the Youngstown area. Pena-Vazquez supplied cocaine to Wolford and Cintron-Baez, also for distribution in the Youngstown area.

Pena-Vazquez and Molina-Torres and Ramos-Burgos ordered cocaine to be transported from Puerto Rico to Florida for distribution in the Youngstown area and Orlando, the indictment alleges.

“Cellular telephones, code words and phrases were used by the co-conspirators to facilitate their drug-trafficking activities,” the indictment states. Some of the code words were shoes, girl, ball, tennis balls, hard, soft, raw, half and whole. These were words referring to controlled substances, drug transactions, locations or payments, it states.

Some of the activities documented by federal officials were April 4, 2020, stating Delgado-Mulero tried to possess about 3,000 grams, or about 6.6 pounds, of cocaine. On May 23, 2020, Delgado-Mulero mailed $82,500 of drug proceeds to an address in Puerto Rico, documents reveal.

On June 5, 2020, Delgado-Mulero mailed $115,520 of drug proceeds to an address in Puerto Rico. On Aug. 3, 2020, Delgado-Muelro, Rosado-Cordero and Cintron-Feliciano tried to possess about 3,900 grams — about 8 1/2 pounds — of cocaine. On Sept. 9, 2020, Cintron-Feliciano and Rosado-Cordero exchanged text messages that the indictment suggests contain instructions for a drug deal involving cocaine.

On Feb. 2, 2021, Rosado-Cordero and Cintron-Feliciano possessed six firearms, a money counter, a vacuum sealer, about 54 ounces of cocaine and $25,020 in cash, the filing states.

The document contains many other details of conversations that were intercepted by the government involving various members of the alleged enterprise.

The indictment states Pena-Vazques and Molina-Torres had previous federal drug convictions, Pena-Vazquez in 2004 and Molina-Torres in 2004, both in the U.S. district courts in Puerto Rico.