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  1. Update 1.7.3c Additions Added new animations thanks to @Jennie 55 social 39 sitting 2 leaning 15 adult 3 standing 25 ground Added /jailduty for the future jail script, /onduty will now also list the guards on duty if you're in the county jail Coroners will now receive a direct payment from the government upon processing a corpse at the morgue Changes Modified the garage system, it shouldn't spawn random vehicles anymore and it is now 2x more optimized Modified how exterior objects are loaded, they should now always properly appear Improved the phone script to optimize SMS / calls loading and avoid unnecessary resources usage, improving server performance and reducing potential crashes Fixes Fixed degrees to farenheight convert formula Call history will now be working again
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  2. This faction video is the official submission of the Conservative Party of San Andreas.
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  3. Feature Showcase: Economy Information This feature showcase will detail our economy, its value and how it works into our world. Closed circle economy We have achieved after 2 years all the changes we wanted to put in place on the gamemode to work in a closed circle economy, what does this mean? Every $1 you're receiving or giving ingame is going to another player: Your taxes are going up to the government, your purchases are going into businesses' banks which are then paying their employees, expenses, etc. The remaining scripted job (fishing, garbage) are paid by the government or by the businesses, as fishes increase the stock of food for the truckers deliveries. Your initial 40 hours increased paycheck that prevents you from doing any grind to start roleplaying is from a welfare program financed by the government bank, so other players' taxes. All of this is automated in our gamemode and there is currently $0 injected into the economy, which prevents massive price increase of houses or items, and we do not need money sinks to keep the economy in good shape. As some players obviously stop playing after a while, their money could be considered out of the economy, if there was a lack of money in the economy we would allow us to inject more money through the state into the factions and government but this case didn't happen yet. Factions budget The government discusses the faction budgets on a monthly (soon to be quarterly) basis. Everything from paygrades of a Police Officer III to an unit cost of a baton, the fuel and maintenance costs of the vehicles – all of the factors that we can reasonably account for are considered into the budget requests, reviewed and addressed in a commensurate manner by the City Government. It’s a solution we feel helps with the immersion for all parties involved – being wasteful /matters/ now. Finally, there are the actual IC initiatives of the City Government. To give you an example – the government funded a construction of 12 new apartments in Hawick. All of which available to the players to rent, and eventually, buy out. Your tax money is used to support businesses through subsidizing the salaries of roleplay employees that don’t bring much value otherwise, to allow people to purchase the vehicles essential for their business operation (keyword, essential. The government doesn’t tend to approve a fleet of 7 Volatuses for a skydiving school) or to simply give them a little bit of cash to cover the first few months of their office lease. We would like to take a moment here and remind everyone that you can tap into a plethora of funds through the government Business Stimulus Package – just head to http://gov.gta.world/ and register. Example of vehicle budgets for the LSFD GTAW$ vs US$ Many players seem to misunderstand the concept of having a healthy economy vs real life economy. GTAW's economy self defined a price to each items based on their value, not on their real life price. It took the choice to keep the houses / vehicles market at a 1:1 price compared to US$, but everything else is adjusted to fit our players' income. We did not want players to have to play years and take mortgage that they would never refund to purchase homes and vehicles, from this choice we had to increase the price of all "small items" (guns, drinks etc.) to match with an increased income of approximately x10 up to x20. For all items that are not vehicles or houses, you can basicly use the formula $1 = 10-20 $GTAW. A real life glock would cost $600 whereas it cost $10,000 on the server. A drink will be around $200 instead of $10 in a bar or night club. These prices are realistic for our money value, healthy and following our initial choice of not implementating 20 years long mortgages into the game.
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  5. Still killing shit I see.
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  6. Erica Witnesses A Murder
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  7. This comment is irrelevant to our faction. Go open up a discussion about the state of illegal roleplay on the server to better express your concern.
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  8. Archdiocese of San Andreas HISTORY Catholics believe that our Lord Jesus Christ founded the Catholic Church in the year 33. Jesus appointed the apostle Peter as the first vicar or pope. Matthew 16:18-19 are the scriptural references Catholics give to support this. "And I say unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock, I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. And I will give unto thee the keys of the Kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shalt be loosed in heaven." The Archdiocese of San Andreas looks over both areas of Los Santos and Blaine County and all the parishes that may arise. CURRENT PARISHES St. Pius Catholic Church - Pre-Vatican II Located in Rockford Hills STRUCTURE The Archdiocese of San Andreas is unique in the fact of not being overseen by a Archbishop, but it is in fact overseen a Cardinal. Mass can be led by Priests or the Cardinal, it just depends on the scheduling. All should be looked up to but the Cardinal reigns over in the Vicar totem pole. The Current Cardinal of the Archdiocese is Cardinal Erico Di Stefano, Born in Salerno Italy in 1965, was assigned the Archdiocese in 2019. SCHEDULE: Baptisms are given through request and appointment, Confirmations will be announced when the Cardinal will be around as the head of the Archdiocese is in charge of confirming members. Sunday Mass occurs at 8 PM EST Other Holy Days and Feast Days will be by announcement. JOINING All Catholics are allowed to attend, we also welcome converts. Although they will need to go through the series of sacraments to receive communion then become confirmed. We would like to keep track of our members of the church to keep a head count on who's at each parish and total members. So we request for you to fill out this form and send it to [email protected] (( @Macsimusx)) Name: Age: Attend Which Parish(s)? : Baptized? : Confirmed? : ALWAYS LOOKING FOR PRIESTS TO ORDAIN OR FOR DEACONS TO ASSIST IN MASS. (OOC Information) This is a religious faction and I will take this seriously, I would love for people to be involved and check out a mass in game or something, but if this could offend you I would advise to stay away.
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  10. Asbo's handling is so bad, it'd only mean that we'd have a 300% rise dead bodies around Chamberlain. Do you want all these freshie bodies on your conscience?
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  11. Scorsese is one of few that tries to stick as close to the actual narrative as possible. That’s if you can believe everything that Sheeran said to be true. Lots of people claimed to have partook in the disappearance of Hoffa. It’s a slow burner but a very good movie with some very talented actors. This scene is one of my favourites, especially the realization he’s going to the clink.
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  12. The thread was a group effort, relax.
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  13. I organized the Thanksgiving event. It was done on an extremely tight schedule, as I’d became a member of the government the day prior to coming up with the event. The reason it was mostly promoted the day before the event/the day of was because the promotional material wasn’t greenlighted until that time. But saying that it was barely promoted is simply not true. I sent a DM to every friend I had on FaceBrowser (50+) with a personalized invite card. I put out /cad’s as instructed by Avro and promoted the event IG by inviting people on behalf of Mayor Rockford. I’m sorry this promotional campaign didn’t reach you. We are hosting a Christmas event this Friday and I have prepared all of the aforementioned promotional tactics for it, and I’m trying to figure out the FB algorithm to broaden my reach on FB. I also gained access to the official LSGOV account, so I’m going to be finally using that as a more official medium to engage people. Regrettably, promotion this time around is hindered by my real life obligations, but luckily I have another person involved with the event who’s going to make up for what I lack. If you want to know more about the work I do to promote things or if you have ideas how I can better facilitate engagement, don’t hesitate to shoot me a PM.
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  14. Ima be real with you chief I can’t see that shit you should’ve waited til day
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  15. I believe that more promotion should be considered. There is barely any press releases done, I don't see any posts on Facebrowser or see public announcements being done on this forum. If you want the community to be more engaged, then those are the very first steps in becoming known. If I am not mistaken, there was a Thanksgiving event done by the government which was barely advertised, I figured it out on the day when it happened itself.
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  16. I'm not quite sure if RAGE supports this at all, but some vehicles have mod options that aren't normally addable to the vehicle via mod shops, but are body style extras. Most vehicles that make use of them just have things like a window sticker, small roof spoiler, window slats, et-cetera. But some vehicles have very apparent extras, such as EXTRA 1 on the new Blista Kanjo being the entire stock spoiler, seen here If possible it'd easily add some individuality to vehicle roleplay. But obviously being a low-priority suggestion.
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  17. The conversion will be fixed on next restart. As for the weather, it's not only LA but other parameters taken into account since we RP a bit off from LA when it comes to geographical position, so we're a bit colder.
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  18. Looking good! Keep it up, Benny blaaack.
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  19. Nah you can't make me, but seriously if you have any criticisms or advice on how to improve the faction please DM me. I'm always willing to listen to people's opinions.
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  20. Erica Witnesses A Murder
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  21. Part one of the rules revamp has been put into place. Rule 0 added. This explains how admins are enforcing the rules. The following rules have been entirely revamped and reworded. They should be read in full for the changes: Common Courtesy; Character Customization; Offensive Roleplay. Rule 13 has been readded to explain the rules around legal firearms and ammunition. Rule 17, Advertisement Rules, has been added as a new rule.
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  22. 15/10 man, what you do is amazing. Keep that up.
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  23. I regret looking at this, I NEED ALL OF THE ANSWERS.
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  24. ls becomes eastern europe more and more by the day. cant wait for a cold war to spontaneously occur within ls
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  25. Update 1.7.3b Fixes Fixed the client error when trying to access the morgue, and the details of each bodies will not be duplicated anymore Fixed an issue where garbage trucks would respawn even if some were still available Added vehicle inventory size for the new vehicles Fixed a server crash
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  26. Never had such a blast roleplaying with a group. The past few months have been amazing. Thank you to both @iGhoul & @Vindusfor giving the me opportunity. Keep this fire going homies.
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  27. That's just to leave a voicemail for another person if they didn't pick up. I think he was talking about someone leaving a pre-recorded message on their own phone like "Hey this is so and so, leave a message at the beep" in the event of a missed call.
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  28. Adrian Barrueco After the short rampage of the now defunct Southside Ghetto Boyz gang in South Davis, one could say that the youth of the entire Southside have experienced an immense change of lifestyle, culture, and unfortunately morality. It would seem once the Southside Ghetto Boyz were expelled from the area, however that may have happened; a power vacuum opened up. One thing led to another and now you have something very similar in ruthlessness but differing in ideology. MONEY BY ANY MEANS, a name dubbed by (?) is what is believed to be just short of organized crime. The deeds of the MONEY BY ANY MEANS gang (?) go from some of the pettiest of theft to the most heinous, disrespectful, outlandish, random, morality lacking crimes Los Santos. To this date it isn't sure if hierarchy exist among this band of heathens. In recent times a series of raids in South Central resulting in the confiscation of a multitude of illegal narcotics and firearms led to more information about the MONEY BY ANY MEANS group being revealed, as well as an insider informant. Those leads ran dry eventually after the murder of would be leader Jesus 'Two Step' Romero following a brief period of time where the MONEY BY ANY MEANS gang's (?) influence was somehow projecting itself in Sandy Shores. The Money BY ANY MEANS gang (?) has been associated with countless drug related violent crimes this year and a stop isn't in sight. Many teenagers and young adults have flocked to social media with #MBAM #MONEYBYANYMEANS #MBK (my brothers keeper), this only proves theories that the organization (?) is growing in membership whatever that may be. As the influence of MONEY BY ANY MEANS spread throughout the southside of Los Santos, early LSPD Gangs and Narcotics reports attributed much of the city’s drug distribution and illegal weapons trade to members of the organization. This not only led to a target on the back of MBAM and it’s associates, but it also meant that the organization in its short time established a place for it's self on the food chain of the Los Santos underworld. The MONEY BY ANY MEANS gang (?) is reportedly operating in never before seen levels of secrecy for the organization (?) following an LSPD sting operation as well as a blatant defeat against the notorious Jamestown Mafia in what locals dub a "crazy drug war". While still under on going investigation, revealed members of the MONEY BY ANY MEANS gang (?) have all turned up deceased such as Jesus 'Two Step' Romero found riddled with bullets, Adrian Barreuco killed in a drive-by shooting, Constanza Rodriguez informant gone 'missing', Sofia Villarreal found dead, Clarence Mason killed execution style, a group of Blood affiliated gang members all butchered in the street, and lastly Craig Gardner also found dead. It isn't clear how well things are going for the MONEY BY ANY MEANS gang (?) But what is the MONEY BY ANY MEANS gang(?), Mafia(?), Syndicate(?), DRUG TRAFFICKING ORGANIZATION(?) We are not sure. But what we are sure of is that this band of wicked, immoral, money hungry criminals must be stopped before it becomes an epidemic.
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  30. Elegance Marketing's submission.
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  31. By: Anthony BoyceDate: 14/12/2019 Brutal Control: A Brief History of the Mexican Mafia The Mexican Mafia, or La Eme, is at the top of a Hispanic organized crime hierarchy that includes both prison and street gangs in San Andreas. According to most accounts, La Eme was formed in 1957 by Luis "Huero Buff" Flores. At the time, Flores was incarcerated at the Deuel Vocational Institution (DVI) in Tracy, San Andreas. Flores and other founding members created La Eme as a both a "gang of gangs" and to protect Hispanics from other gangs within the San Andreas prison system. La Eme quickly grew in size and strength. In the 1960s, the San Andreas Department of Corrections moved Eme members to other prisons such as Bolingbroke, in an effort to break up the gang activity at DVI. This effort served to spread La Eme's influence to other prisons. As La Eme expanded, the group saw the potential for profiting from drug sales, gambling and extortion rackets inside prison, so leaders placed taxes on these activities, forcing Latino inmates to hand over a small percentage of profits to the gang. In the 1980s, La Eme took this approach to the street. By joining forces with East Los Santos street gang leaders, La Eme began to control activities like drug trafficking, extortion, contract killings, and debt collection from inside prison walls. As prisons became more racially divided, rival race-based criminal organizations sprang up in the San Andreas prison system, including the Black Guerilla Family and the Aryan Brotherhood. La Eme continued to thrive in the face of this opposition, and even grew more organized, drafting a set of gang rules or "commandments" and recruiting members from Latino street gangs in Southern San Andreas. The Mexican Mafia enjoyed unchecked power in San Andreas prisons and streets until the 1990s, when a concentrated effort of police raids and subsequent federal indictments were intended to put a wrench in the wheels of the gang's machine. In 1995, 22 people were charged under the federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act with crimes including murder, extortion, and kidnapping. When these 22 people were arrested in May of that year, justice system officials thought they'd finally ended La Eme's reign of terror. Debra Wang, the United States Attorney for the Central District of San Andreas, said, "We have effectively crippled the gang and put it out of business." United States Attorney Nora M. Manella told the Los Santos Times, "This indictment and the arrests will significantly disable one of San Andreas' most violent gangs." History suggests the Mexican Mafia was not broken by these legal challenges. Although its power has diminished since the late 1990s, the group continues its criminal activities both in and outside of prisons all over San Andreas. To the jailers of California, the Mexican Mafia is known as the gang of gangs. Any member of a Latino street gang sent to prison or jail in San Andreas likely has to abide by the rules and dictates of the gang while in prison. Even to the point of making peace with their long-time hated rivals. “They have the ability to turn gangs that are historically sworn enemies that fight on the streets into allies when they come inside our jail system,” said Commander Joseph Dempsey of the Los Santos County Sheriff’s Department. Author and former Los Santos Times reporter Sam Quinones has chronicled the Mexican Mafia and associated Latino street gangs of San Andreas for two decades. Quinones says the gang’s power extended as its 30-year reputation for viciousness in the jail system won the allegiance of Latino street gangs throughout Southern San Andreas. “The Mexican Mafia’s influence and importance to Southern San Andreas goes far far beyond the prisons now,” Quinones told The Daily Beast. “I came to understand the Mexican Mafia was as important to many towns and communities as the mayor. They had an enormous effect in certain areas of Southern California, particularly the Latino barrios—an effect on the crime rate, the murder rate, and how drugs were sold.” Two federal indictments unsealed May 23 in Los Santos vividly affirm the immense power wielded by the gang of gangs in the jails and prisons of California. The court documents allege members of the Mexican Mafia divided up control of the drug trade in nearly every jail and prison in the state, imposing “taxes” and meting out violent discipline to inmates who didn’t follow the gang’s rules. One of the indictments goes as far as to characterize the gang’s activity as “an illegal government” inside what is the largest jail system in the country. What’s more, the indictments assert what cops and crooks in Los Santos have been saying for years, that the gang’s system of discipline and “taxation” extended far beyond the walls of the state’s prisons and into nearly every community in the Los Santos area where Latino street gangs were active. “Members of such gangs are expected to and are proud to, carry out the orders of the Mexican Mafia member in control of their neighborhood or custody facility because doing work for the Mexican Mafia increases the gang member’s status and reputation,” reads one of the unsealed indictments. A sense of the far-reaching criminal enterprise in Southern San Andreas was evident from the array of local police and federal agents who participated in last week’s announcement that federal racketeering charges were being brought against Mexican Mafia members and associates. LOS Santos– Special agents from the San Andreas Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation’s Office of Correctional Safety, in conjunction with federal and local authorities, have arrested 15 defendants named in a federal racketeering indictment that describes the development and implementation of a coalition of three criminal street gangs in the Northeast Los Santos area. The gangs were brought together under a truce ordered by a Mexican Mafia member for the purpose of controlling criminal activity in the neighborhoods where the trio of gangs operated. Unlike previous federal racketeering cases in this region that targeted long-established street gangs, the indictment that was returned yesterday by a federal grand jury outlines how Mexican Mafia member Arnold Gonzales created a criminal enterprise by unifying three gangs that had traditionally been rivals. According to the 27-count indictment, the “peace treaty” imposed by Arnold Gonzales brought together the Frogtown, Toonerville and Rascals gangs, which then worked “in concert to control the narcotics trafficking and other illicit activities committed in their territories,” which run along the Los Santos River from Mirror Park nearly to El Burro Heights. The indictment alleges a conspiracy to violate the Racketeer-Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) and accuses a total of 22 defendants of being “members and associates of a criminal organization engaged in, amongst other things, conspiracy to traffic in narcotics, narcotics trafficking, extortion, and crimes of violence, including conspiracy to commit murder, murder, attempted murder, and robbery.” “There is a path of lives ruined, and families devastated by the violence, extortion, and addictions that were created by this gang alliance,” said Bill Kunz, Special Agent in Charge, San Andreas Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Office of Correctional Safety. “So, those who join with the Mexican Mafia should be on notice: law enforcement is also banded together. We will track you down, and take you down.” Gonzales is listed as an unindicted co-conspirator. He is serving a sentence of life without the possibility of parole at Bolingbroke Penitentiary. He was convicted on September 7, 1982 of murder in the first degree, assault with the intent to murder, and burglary in the 2nd degree out of Los Santos County. Exploiting a power vacuum created by previous federal RICO cases targeting Northeast Los Santos gangs and the Mexican Mafia members who controlled them, Arnold Gonzales allegedly assumed control of the three street gangs in the fall of 2010. Because he was incarcerated in Bolingbroke Penitentiary after being convicted of murder, Arnold Gonzales anointed another Frogtown member – Jorge Grey, also known as “Bouncer” – to be his emissary on the streets, according to the indictment. Acting as the so-called shot caller, Grey convened a meeting of representatives of Northeast Los Santos gangs in September 2010. At this meeting, Grey informed the gang representatives that he was Arnold Gonzales’s “mouthpiece” and that he had orders to broker a truce among the rival gangs of Frogtown, Toonerville, and the Rascals so that they could work together to control illegal activities in the area on behalf of, and for the benefit of, Arnold Gonzales. The investigation showed that nearly two years after its formation, the criminal organization had achieved its goal of unifying the three longstanding rival gangs into a single criminal enterprise. Less than two years after Arnold Gonzales imposed the truce on the gangs, one of the Toonerville shot callers, Manuel Vallejo, was talking about the “United Nations,” “New World Order” and “United Neighborhoods,” which he said was the “game plan.” Just a few months ago, Vallejo was boasting about the execution of that “game plan,” noting that he was part of something that had ended more than 50 years of fighting between Frogtown, Toonerville, and the Rascals. “For the past two decades, federal authorities have been fighting the influence of the Mexican Mafia both inside prison facilities and on the streets of Southern San Andreas,” said Assistant United States Attorney Robert Dugdale, Chief of the office’s Criminal Division. “We sought to ensure that being a shot caller in such a gang is a job whose only reward will be many, many years in federal custody. The indictment announced today is the latest salvo in this battle, and we will continue our crackdown on criminal organizations like the Mexican Mafia and street gangs that do its bidding as long as they threaten our communities.” The RICO indictment targeting the Arnold Gonzales Organization is the result of Operation “Gig ‘em,” which was a 2½-year investigation conducted by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, Violent Crime Impact Team; the San Andreas Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Office of Correctional Safety, Special Service Unit; the Glendale Police Department; and the Los Angeles Police Department. Glendale Police Chief Rob Castro stated, “The Glendale Police Department recognizes that gang crimes have no borders and the City of Glendale is not immune to the impact of gang violence. Our participation in a multi-jurisdictional operation such as this ensures the safety of our community.” This morning, authorities arrested 14 of the defendants named in the RICO indictment. Four other defendants were already in custody, and law enforcement continues to search for three defendants, including Grey. (Two other individuals named in separate one-defendant, one-count drug trafficking indictments were also arrested this morning.) Members of the organization also implemented plans to expand operations into the greater Lancaster, San Andreas area, where they hoped to engage in drug trafficking and collect “taxes” on behalf of, and for the benefit, of Arnold Gonzales. As part of the scheme, several participants in the enterprise allegedly deposited money into Arnold Gonzales’s prison account, with one individual depositing over $133,000 on her own over the course of the 2-year investigation. The money was closely tracked by investigators. The indictment alleges that Grey and other members of the enterprise engaged in narcotics and weapons transactions at Homeboy Industries, and one defendant allegedly planned to use Homeboy Industries as an “alibi” if he was accused of associating with other gang members in violation of a gang injunction. In addition to the RICO charge in the indictment, various defendants are charged with narcotics and weapons offenses, including, in one instance, the possession of a machinegun. An indictment contains allegations that a defendant has committed a crime. Every defendant is presumed to be innocent until proven guilty in court. If they are convicted of charges contained in the indictment, all of the defendants would face potential sentences of decades in federal prison. Brutal Control: The Mexican Mafia's involvement in the hit of Vicente 'Chucky' Gutierrez, Ghetto Boyz OG. August 3rd, 2019. Gonzalo Suriel, a validated Emero, one of the most infamous Mexican Mafia hitmen, and the prime suspect of the case, leaves his house at 2PM, after dialing up Spider, a Camarada at the time, asking him to bring, quote on quote, "We've got something to talk about. Swing by Davis", little did he know that they were about to perform a hit for one the Emeros on the inside, Rudy Correra a/k/a Panic, one of the key figures of the gang Ghetto Boyz 27st, a member that has been affiliated to the Mexican Mafia and his gang for about fifty years now, and is also known as the "Godfather" of the Ghetto Boyz. Chato and Spider were ordered to do a hit on Chucky since he stole drugs from Panic, and was not paying his taxes to the Mexican Mafia. 3PM, the meeting has been arranged and Chucky is told that it'll be a Sunday barbecue, and he'll have to attend serious business. Vicente arrives to the scene and gets introduced to Spider and Chato, both known to be operating with all of the Southern Mexican gangs around South and East Los Santos. Forty or so minutes pass, and multiple shots are heard, Chucky has been brutally beaten, stabbed, and shot, his body left in the canals North West of Davis, leaving a bloody trail behind. Police say that he has been stabbed twenty-seven times in the stomach, four times in the neck, and he had two bullet holes in his forehead. Chato and Spider were last seen at the Davis Gas Station before disappearing for two months, multiple other hits were ordered by Joey "Puppet" Pousa, Chato's sponsor and mentor, that being the explosion at Vespucci, as the Gravedwellers had an ongoing conflict with the Mexican Mafia, alongside the Jamestown shootings, that involved the killings of two children and multiple Jamestown gang affiliates. Chato was caught in a trap house around East Los Santos. He was charged for the murder of Vicente 'Chucky' Gutierrez, and he's now serving a sentence to life with no chance of parole. Brutal Control: The current state of the Mexican Mafia. Los Santos has always been the 'crown jewel' of La Eme and it's street operations with the organization having a stranglehold on much of the city's Hispanic street gangs. This is a list that has grown to include some of the largest gangs in the entire state. Criminal operations within the city have largely been coordinated through a tight-knit core of seasoned 'Camaradas' that collects taxes and enforces its whims throughout East Los Santos. Most recently at the top of this structure was prominent gangland figure Rene 'Bosko' Blajos whose reputation for cunning and extreme brutality earned him enormous respect within the Mexican Mafia. Bosko, throughout a two year period, worked virtually unopposed to step up in the leadership and establish a vast criminal enterprise that earned millions from drug trafficking alone. This brief empire was brought to an untimely end with an enormous city-wide law enforcement operation dubbed "Open Casket" that saw La Eme's street presence evaporate overnight with a series of indictments. Law Enforcement officials speculate that with the fall of Blajos' organization a serious power vacuum has formed between the survivors as well as a newer generation that seeks their place in the limelight and who are increasingly unscrupulous with how they attain it. They're known to have been involved in the Jamestown hits, alongside the explosion in Vespucci.
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  32. By: Anthony BoyceDate: 19/12/2019 Hispanic gangs in the City of Santos, San Andreas – El Burro Heights area Situated just east of the Los Santos canals, El Burro Heights has long been a gateway for newcomers to the city. From the 1920s to the 1950s it was Los Santos’ most heterogenous neighborhood, serving as home to large concentrations of Jews, Mexicans, and Japanese Americans, as well as Russian Molokans, African Americans, and people of Armenian, Italian, and Chinese descent. Today the neighborhood is primarily Latino, and it continues to serve as a port-of-entry for a number of the city’s immigrant groups. The nearly 100-year old Jewish synagogue, El Rancho Boulevard Synagogue is also known as the Congregation Talmud Torah of Los Santos still sits on El Rancho Boulevard in El Burro Heights. Although it is currently not open, the building was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001. This community was the heart of Jewish life during the starting in the 1920s but decades later the Jewish community moved northwest into Mirror Park. Much of the Jewish history in El Burro Heights has been preserved, but in 1994, the Los Santos City Council and the County Board of Supervisors changed the name of Brooklyn Avenue, previously the center of Jewish culture and life, to César Chávez Avenue. One of that last Jewish owned businesses in the area was RON gas station, a gas station at 2306 El Rancho Avenue. The Zellman family opened their gas station in 192, but they continued operating the gas station years after Jewish flight, serving the Hispanic community until 1999. The gangs in El Burro Heights identify with East Los Santos (East LOS / ELS) but the jurisdiction of East Los Santos is east of Indiana which is unincorporated Los Santos County policed by the Los Santos County Sheriff’s department, and El Burro Heights is in the City of Los Santos, policed by the Hollenbeck Department of the Los Santos Police Department (LSPD). Hillside 13 is a sureño (southern Mexican) street gang located in El Burro Heights, geographically placed in the eastern part of Los Santos. El Burro Heights is one of East Los Santos' oldest barrios (gangs), dating back to the early 1900s. Around that period of time, the neighborhood consisted mainly of working-class families with Italian and Irish descent, but as the migration of many Mexican immigrants happened a majority of the other ethnic groups such as the Jewish, Irish, and Italian population moved up northwest towards Mirro Park and West Vinewood. Many of the Hispanic population was working in local shops as well in the nearby industrial area. That came to a change as the Murrieta Oil Field was bought in 1921. Almost instantly, cheap Mexican laborers began to flood into the area, working in the oil fields in slave-like conditions, being used as cheap labor hand. As the new laborers began to settle down in the neighborhood of El Burro Heights, they were faced with severe racism by the locals, despising them for stealing their jobs and because of their cultural differences. This caused violence coming from both sides, forcing the Hispanic community to band together and protect each other from the racism and violence that was directed towards them. The gang was originally formed by young teens associated with the Catholic Church in the neighborhood. The gang was probably formed in 1921 when there was an influx of Mexican immigrants into El Burro Heights fleeing religious persecution in Mexico. Between 1926 and 1928, persecution in Mexico closed the churches and drove the priests into exile causing hundreds of families to settle in El Burro Heights, a predominately Jewish neighborhood at the time. The Mexican immigrants preserved their Catholic traditions and Father Cordero, one of the exiled Mexican priests, was named administrator of the Mission of Our Lady of Talpa. The first mass was celebrated on Ash Wednesday, 1927 and the first Baptism was recorded on October 27, 1928. It was the young boys of the families that attended this Catholic Church that formed the gang that would eventually become Hillside 13. The gang came into prominence during the Pachuca era of the 1940s and were one of the first gangs to develop rivalries with all the surrounding various, including Varrio Nuevo Estrada and El Hoyo Maravilla. During the 1950s, Hillside 13 members socialized at the Jewel Theatre on Whittier Blvd near Indiana Street but by the 1960s, the theatre was closed. Today, Hillside1 3 is one of the largest geographical gangs in the El Burro Heights and in 2019 the Los Santos City Attorney’s office filed a civil injunction against the gang, labeling it a nuisance. During the years to follow, the Hillside community has undergone a serious gentrification transition, with new buildings constructed, old buildings renovated and rents increasing. According to retired Sheriff deputy Richard Valdemar, “Hillside was one of the largest and most violent gangs in Los Santos when I was growing up during the 1950s and 1960s. They claim to be the first gang to carry out a drive-by shooting and are largely responsible for moving warfare from the fair fight to the urban terrorist mentality we see today.”
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