Eight men with ties to organized crime were charged yesterday with conspiring to control drug sales at locations in Brooklyn and Staten Island in a pattern of racketeering that included murder, extortion and bribery.

Federal officials said the suspects and two others still being sought made up a drug organization that since early 1985 had controlled wholesale cocaine distribution and street-level marijuana sales at a half-dozen key locations in the two boroughs.

To do so, a Federal complaint said, the group's members killed two drug dealers, beat another savagely with baseball bats, used violence and threats to force rival pushers to pay protection money and paid bribes to police officers they thought were corrupt.

The group sold $10,000 in marijuana a day at Staten Island College and large amounts of drugs at Wolf's Pond Park and Willowbrook Park in Staten Island and in Brooklyn's Bay Ridge section, officials said, and was smashed with the aid of two pushers who turned informer. #10-Member Group ''We dismantled an organization here,'' Robert Strang, a spokesman for the Federal Drug Enforcement Administration, said in announcing the culmination of an 18-month inquiry by the Joint Drug Enforcement Task Force, composed of Federal, state and city narcotics investigators.
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''No single case is going to solve the drug problem,'' Mr. Strang added, ''and we don't want to give the impression that this is going to clear up marijuana and cocaine sales in Brooklyn and Staten Island. But these people are definitely out of business, and it is this kind of case that ultimately will make a difference.''

He said the 10-member group, aged 23 to 33, was led by Gregory Scarpa Jr., a reputed captain in the Colombo Mafia family. Mr. Scarpa's uncle, Salvatore, another reputed Colombo captain, was the first of 10 men slain gangland-style in Brooklyn this year; another victim was a close associate of his father, Gregory Scarpa Sr. Besides Mr. Scarpa, those charged under the Federal Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organizations law were Cosmo Catanzano, Nunzio DeCarlo, Leonard DeCarlo and Ralph B. Russo, all of Brooklyn, and Mario Parlagreco, William Meli and Kevin Granato, of Staten Island. Joseph Savarese and John arlagreco, of Brooklyn, were charged with extortion. #5 Suspects Seized in Brooklyn Five suspects were seized Tuesday in Brooklyn. Mr. Granato and Nunzio DeCarlo were already in jail on other charges and Mr. Savarese surrendered yesterday at the drug administration's offices at 555 West 57th Street. Mr. Scarpa and Leonard DeCarlo were still being sought.

The arrested men were arraigned in Brooklyn yesterday before a United States Magistrate, Simon Chrein. Mr. Russo was released on $500,000 bond and John Parlagreco on $250,000 bond; the others were held pending further hearings.

A complaint by United States Attorney Andrew J. Maloney accused the defendants of ''a pattern of racketeering'' in which ''each committed at least two acts.'' Among the crimes cited were the murders of Peter Crupi, found shot in Brooklyn Aug. 2, 1985, and of Albert Nacha, found shot on Staten Island Dec. 10, 1985, and beatings and oth