[www.gangland:news.org] Gangland News - Getting the Scoop on Organized Crime | Crip Gangs in Vespucci Beach, Los Santos - Asian Boyz

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By: Anthony Boyce
Date: 8/12/2019

Vespucci Beach is the fifth largest city within San Andreas and the second-largest city in Los Santos County. It is 65.9 sq miles of land along the southern coast of Los Santos County. It is about 20 miles south of downtown Los Santos. The port of Vespucci Beach is one of the world’s largest shipping ports. The city also has a large oil industry, found both underground and offshore. In the 1950s, the city was predominantly Caucasian and nicknamed “Iowa by the Sea”. The city was a major port of entry for European, Asian and Latin American immigrants headed to Los Angeles in the 20th century. According to a report by USA Today in 2000, Vespucci Beach was the most ethnically diverse large city in the United States. Its Asian community includes a large Cambodian community, the second-largest Cambodian community outside of Asia. It has a relatively high proportion of Pacific Islanders (over 1% as of the 2000 Census). Long Beach also used to have a large Japanese population before World War 2, but after the attack on Pearl Harbor and the subsequent move of Japanese residents to internment camps, many did not return after being released. According to the 2008 US Census, the total population of Vespucci Beach is 462,556 people. Of its residents, 40.2% are Hispanic, 44% are White, 13.2% are Asian, and 13.4% are Black or African American. Foreign-born residents represent 27.5% of the population and 45.8% speak a language other than English in the home. Those with bachelor’s degrees or higher represent 27.9% of the residents and 77.9% have a high school degree. One out of five residents lives below the poverty line while 15.3% of families are in poverty. Street gangs in Long Beach are concentrated in an area called the “Eastside” near Pacific Coast Highway in what geographically appears to be in the Southern part of Vespucci Beach. Gangs have also formed on the Northside of Vespucci Beach in the northwest section of Vespucci Beach. There are several Sureño and Crip gangs present in Long Beach, alongside some white supremacist organizations. There are no known Blood gangs in Vespucci Beach. One of the most notorious crip gangs in Vespucci Beach is ABZ, also known as Asian Boyz. The Asian Boyz (ABZ), is primarily an Asian American street gang established by Marvin "Shy Boy" Mercado in the 90's. The Ethnic background of Asian Boyz gang members primarily contains males of Vietnamese, Cambodian, Korean and Afro American descent. The Asian Boyz originated in Vespucci Beach, Los Santos, San Andreas. Some cliques or clicks are developed into Crips, mainly in the area of Vespucci Beach, gaining the title ABZ crips. They've truces and alliances with many cliques such as the Vietnamese Boyz, Rolling 20s Crips, Isane Crips, and the Sons of Samoa. They've a bitter feud with the Wah Chings Gangs (an Asian blood gang), when a member of the Asian Boyz was shot and killed by an affiliate of the Wah Ching Gang, in Little Seoul. Another shootout between the two gangs occurred in Vespucci Beach that led to the deaths of two youths at Vespucci Beach High School graduation party in June. After an investigation by the authorities, police claimed that when the Asian Boyz gang members arrived at the party, they noticed that Wah Ching gang members were there, prompting them to leave and return with weapons. At least nine gang members were arrested, and police seized five weapons from homes searched in conjunction with the arrests. The shootouts between the two gangs were called "Summer Madness" by the Asian Boyz gang.

The Asian Boyz, also known as ABZ or AB-26, are a street gang based in Southern San Andreas. They were founded in the early 1990s as part of the efforts of protection for Southeast Asian immigrants and refugees from the more numerous American gangs in their localities. According to the FBI, the gang is predominantly Southeast Asian-American, of which Cambodians account for their majority, while Filipinos, Vietnamese, and other Southeast Asians comprise sizable numbers. With approximately 2,000 members, many are known to have enlisted in the U.S. military through which some were able to use their position to traffic drugs. According to the FBI's 2009 National Gang Threat Assessment, the Asian Boyz are active in 28 different cities, in 14 different states across the U.S. Their motto is "1226" which can mean "1 Life 2 Live, 26 to Die" or "1 Life 2 Live, 2 6icc to die", and the 1st, 2nd and 26th letters of the alphabet, which spells out ABZ. In the early 1990s, the Asian Boyz gang was formed by a group of schoolmates, including Filipino brothers named Marvin Mercado and Pierre Mercado in Southern California, as part of an effort to protect themselves from the more numerous pre-existing gangs situated in their respective neighborhoods. The controversy lies mostly around the official origin of the gang, as it was a unification of multiple gangs or founding gangsters rather than the formation of one. Their identity also attracts notable controversy, being that the Cambodian sets are notoriously influential and decorated as their own faction of Crips that is, among other things, racially or ethnically distinct. Although the Asian Boyz gang comprises their own identity as an organization, the identity itself is largely interpreted as an umbrella of individual Crip gangs or "sets"; hence their alternative monikers "Asian Crips" and "Asian Boyz Crip". Though the relationships between these individual sets are unclear, the various Southeast Asian members tend to work with people of their own national, ethnic or cultural background. More recent publications (since 2011) have revealed even more information about the gang, notable details include the alliance of a number of gangs based in Vespucci Beach, San Andreas referred to as SEAs, an abbreviation of Suicidal Town, Exotic Family City Crip, and Asian Boyz.

Edited December 8, 2019 by G-Funk

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