Vespucci 13

[Chef]

 

Vespucci 13, abbreviated as V13 or VX3, is a Mexican-American street gang based along Magellan Avenue which is located in the Vespucci district of Los Santos, San Andreas. The area which the gang is known to frequent is colloquially known as “Boomtown” due to the ongoing conflict with nearby African-American street gangs. With the gentrification of the surrounding neighborhoods and the cost of living rising as a result, vast quantities of Mexican immigrant families and Mexican-American families migrated towards the lower housing cost of the south west corner of the Vespucci District.

 

Historically the gang has been predominantly Mexican or Mexican-American, but it is noted that during the gangs initial years there have been African-Americans who were apart of the gang as a result of their growing up in the Chicano part of Vespucci. But during the mid-to-late ‘90s the gang’s association with La Eme and La Eme’s edic that all Sureno gangs are to cease drive-bys, halt Sureno-on-Sureno violence, focus all hostile actions on African-American gangs and to rid their ranks of African-Americans cause an internal conflict and expulsion of said members. This edic effectively placed an active green light on the majority of African-Americans, which still carries on to this day. With the rise racial tension between Hispanic and African-American gangs, it is only natural that Vespucci 13’s hostile actions towards the gang’s main rival of the era, Vespucci Beach Crips, increased drastically. The footprint left by the VBC is near to non-existent in the more recent years. Their impending extinction can only be a result of ongoing hostilities from Vespucci 13.

 

The San Andreas Department of Corrections claims that several veteranos or veterans of the Vespucci 13 Sureno gang have become key players within the Mexican Mafia, or La Eme. A name that rings throughout the neighbourhood of Vespucci and through the prison tiers of Bolingbroke Penitentiary is one, Rene “Bosko” Blajos. The name Bosko has become an infamous with relation to prison violence. Blajos was active with Vespucci 13 during the late 1980’s and until he was arrested for burglary in 1993. Sentenced to ten years, three in a juvenile facility, Blajos quickly added another 15 years onto his sentence as a result of being convicted of two attempted murder charges. It is noted that he was also charged with first degree murder, but was not found guilty.

 

Blajos would go on to foster the next generation of gang leadership in Vespucci through a young inmate he encountered during the early 2000s, a second-generation Chicano banger named Emilio Montoya. “Elmo” as he has become known throughout Boomtown, joined the gang as an adolescent and was immediately shunned by his immigrant family who deemed his unfavorable behavior a shame on the family. At age twelve he was on his own in life, his only “family” becoming the individuals in the gang who loaned the young teen a couch to rest his head on. Elmo took notoriety from a spike in the occurrence of armed robbery throughout Vespucci during the early 2000s when he organized a small ring of stick-up men targeting tourists and wealthy residents from the green pastures of Vespucci Beach.

 

This notoriety, however, would also land him his first lengthy prison sentence in 2005. Emilio Montoya was convicted on charges of armed robbery in the first degree, and was given a seven year incarceration sentence to be served at Bolingbroke Penitentiary. The judge came down hard on 19 year old Montoya, targeting his gang association during the trial to make an example out of him.

 

Like a majority of the delinquents housed within the walls of Bolingbroke, prison time was no sweat off Emilio’s back. Once inside, he made contact with the Mexican Mafia through “Bosko” Blajos whom recognized Emilio from his years on the streets in Vespucci. Emilio dedicated his sentence to impressing the powers that be within Eme, putting in work through heroin trafficking that ran rampant throughout the prison. By the time he was up for parole, Montoya was hardened by the system and primed by Bosko to assume leadership over Vespucci 13 under the Mexican Mafia’s umbrella of power. He finished out his sentence and returned to the barrio in the summer of 2012.

 

The current status and strength of the gang is unknown to law enforcement agencies. It is believed however that regardless of their street strength, the relationship that the gang has with the San Andreas contingent of the Mexican Mafia bolsters their power two fold.

 

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OOC:

 

Vespucci 13 is a faction which aims to accurately represent the Chicano street gang culture within Los Santos, as a reproduction of real-life sureno gangs such as Los Angeles’ Venice 13. All those involved in this project fall under a CK clause in correlation with La Eme (our mother faction). This clause allows the leadership of this faction and La Eme to permanently character kill your character for reasons they should deem appropriate. We urge anyone looking to develop their character within our circle and build their way into La Eme to not hesitate in reaching out to us in game for roleplay.

 

Credits for the story go to Caporegime & Chef.

[Caporegime]

[Portz]

Puro Sur Trece... Where you from, ese?

[Rocky]

let's get it. 

[Nervous]

Current and future Sureno factions... take note. This is gonna be nice, will be watching.

[Chef]

[Rocky]

[Rocky]

[Chef]

[Thread]

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