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This thread will follow the life of Donny Jones, a 20 year old Vespucci local finding his way back home and coming back to the streets to fight against modern comformity.

OOC INFO: We aim to portray a fictional, yet realistic Asian tagging crew that is situated in the vicinity of Vespucci Canals and embodies a believable reality. To ensure great quality character development, we require that every member has a well-crafted backstory upon joining us. We currently stand as an invite-only faction to maintain our reputation as a tight-knit, high quality roleplaying group. Invitations are extended through in-character means. Upon joining the faction script in-game you immediately surrender any and all CK perms to the Troubled Reckless Steppers leadership. (For any questions or concerns contact @drownin or @occ via forum PM's)

Hate Fueled Joyride Rock Vespucci Beach March 12, 2023, 10:46 Written by Robert Grey Vespucci - A joyride turned into a nightmare for residents of Vespucci after a skinhead gang member went on a destructive rampage. Leo Mazza, a 21-year-old member of a local skinhead gang, drove through the streets of Vespucci, taking out street lights and driving over sidewalks in a meth-fueled frenzy. Mazza was eventually stopped by the Los Santos County Sheriff's Department, who had been alerted to his reckless driving by concerned residents. During the traffic stop, deputies discovered that Mazza was carrying a loaded handgun and an undisclosed amount of cocaine and pills. According to witnesses, Mazza was driving erratically, swerving in and out of traffic and narrowly avoiding other vehicles and pedestrians. He was seen driving onto the sidewalk, knocking over garbage cans and causing damage to storefronts. One resident, who asked to remain anonymous, said, "It was like something out of a movie. He was driving like a maniac, and we were all just trying to stay out of his way." Another witness, who also asked to remain anonymous, said, "It was terrifying. He was driving so fast, and I thought he was going to hit me. I'm just glad he's been caught." Mazza has been charged with a number of offenses, including reckless driving, possession of a loaded firearm, and possession of illegal drugs. He is currently being held in custody pending his arraignment. The incident has sparked outrage in the community, with many residents expressing their disgust at the actions of the skinhead gang member. "This kind of behavior is unacceptable," said one resident. "We need to come together as a community to stand up against hate and violence." The Los Santos County Sheriff's Department has vowed to continue to crack down on dangerous driving and gang-related activity in the area. "We will not tolerate this kind of behavior in our community," said a spokesperson for the department. "We will do everything in our power to keep our streets safe and to bring those responsible to justice." FOLLOW US ONLINE FOR LIVE UPDATES: HTTPS://SOSANSENTINEL.ORG/LIVE-UPDATES CLICK HERE TO COMMENT BELOW, TELL US HOW YOU FEEL! USERNAME: COMMENT:

Looking to sell my furnished apartment at 2213 Bay City Avenue. Starting Bid: 130,000$ Buyout: 220,000$ Property to be sold to highest offer. https://imgur.com/a/hT19IAU

This thread will follow the character development of Matt Boyle, Ryan Ward and Louie Campbell.

As a second-generation Cambodian-American who has lived in Vespucci Canals since childhood, he has witnessed the harsh realities of living there, despite its visually appealing canals and grand homes. The area has been plagued by poverty and violence. Jayden's mother was a child during the Cambodian war, forced to flee with her mother to escape the violence. Unfortunately, Jayden's grandmother passed away when his mother was still very young, making it difficult for her to balance work, studies, and caring for Jayden as a single mother. As a result, Jayden rarely saw his mother in a positive light, as she was often stressed, complaining, and taking her frustrations out on him due to his father's absence. Feeling trapped, Jayden would escape the house as often as possible, spending time with local kids in the area and eventually forming their own crew. Initially, they simply represented TRS at school, but they soon progressed to tagging, and eventually tag-banging, which caused a host of new issues. Nowadays, Jayden's mother has little authority over him. He habitually disobeys her and continues to sneak out of the house whenever he pleases. TRS has become a major focus for him, and he has even ventured into new avenues to generate income for himself and his mother. His attendance at school has dwindled, and he engages in more physical altercations than ever before.

Southern San Andreas Sentinel February 3, 2023 Decomposed Body Found in Abandoned Vespucci Canals Home A disturbing discovery was made in Vespucci Canals when the decomposed body of a mid-twenties white male was found in an abandoned and boarded up home. The body was discovered following a report of a bad smell coming from the property. Upon further investigation, the man appeared to have been beaten and then shot multiple times. The Los Santos County Sheriff's Department promptly responded and the Homicide Bureau has been tasked with the investigation. The identity of the victim and the circumstances surrounding their death remain unknown at this time. The community is shocked and saddened by this violent crime and is eager for answers. The Sheriff's Department has stated that they are following all leads and working tirelessly to bring those responsible to justice. They have urged anyone with information about this case to come forward and assist in the investigation. This is a developing story and more details will be provided as they become available. The Southern San Andreas Sentinel will continue to follow this story and provide updates to the community. FOLLOW US ONLINE FOR LIVE UPDATES: HTTPS://SOSANSENTINEL.ORG/LIVE-UPDATES CLICK HERE TO COMMENT BELOW, TELL US HOW YOU FEEL! USERNAME: COMMENT:

This character thread will outline the development of "Elijah Keller", a down ass white boy who is a part of a street gang based in Vespucci named Terror Town 13 & will feature nothing but grimey screenshots and roleplay.

Matthew Neumann, 19, from Vespucci Beach

The following thread will follow the character development of Elias Cabrera, a defunct Beachside Terror affiliate.

This thread showcases the life of one Vespucci local named Alvin Fowler. Alvin Fowler is one of the many representatives of White youth in the Vespucci area. Prone to getting involved with hard narcotics and violence at an early age, Alvin shoots his shot at trying to survive the vicious streets of gangland "Dogtown" and make a life for himself. A troubled home, an easy access to hardcore drugs and a neighborhood full of criminally motivated racist skinheads are what dictate how his life is going to go.

Calvin Williams starts to become more affiliated with some School Yard Crips as he lives in the area.

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Ladarrell Webster, also known as TINY TC is a 18 year old African-American from the Vespucci area and resides on the W/S 1300 block also known as "Wacc Side". He is a known affiliate of the Suicidal Town Crips (STC). He’s been actively gang banging since he was 15 years old. TC's run ins with the law enforcement started around this time, by 16, he was already charged with numerous crimes such as: four counts of burglaries, Vandalism, Aggravated Assault, and a gun charge, Penal Code 25850. Robber — This character steals things. He's breaking into homes or robbing others at gunpoint. You can recruit others to help you with your schemes, or do these missions solo. The items are probably sold online, or to others in the neighborhood. Booster — Similar to property theft, this character specializes in stealing clothes. They walk into various stores and steal shirts, jeans, socks, belts, shoes, etc. Maybe they work at a clothing store and steal whatever they can when the boss isn't looking. These characters sell their merchandise online and to others around the neighborhood. Hot Head — This character has a very quick temper. They're always ready to use violence on some of the simplest conflicts. This aggressive behavior would lead to a lot of fights, and possibly jail time. Whether it's their homies or the enemies, this character is quick to fight.

Contact information: Phone number: 92158424 Website: Tilted Tulip

Above: Brock during a stint in Bolingbroke State Penitentiary. Kyle “Lucky” Brock is a 27-year-old Vespucci native recently released on parole from the San Andreas Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. He’s known to have contact with various white gangs in and surrounding Vespucci Beach, mainly the white street gang known as Public Enemy No.1(PEN1, Peeneye) and to an extent, The Aryan Brotherhood. Since being released on parole, authorities assume Brock is inactive in the gang scene. After a high profile arrest, Kyle, along with his business partners, Edgar Boon and Weston Stigers, were sent to Twin Towers Correctional Facility for eight months awaiting trial. During this time in TTCF, Kyle continued to operated under the auspices of his gang, Public Enemy No.1; Kyle continued to program on the mainline, getting involved in various race riots and altercations. Soon enough, the trio was given their court papers, only to find out that the State was dropping all charges against them. The three were then promptly released from TTCF. Brock was able to return to his home, Vespucci Beach; where's lived his whole life. He continues to program while off the mainline, getting back into the swing of things and adjusting back to his place as a menace to society.

V-Town Buffalos The Vespucci Buffalo Soldiers, is a Black nationalistic Street crew located within the La Puerta area of Vespucci stretching from low income apartments, and homes in the proximity of Bay City Avenue such as Tug Street, and Rub street, along within Melanoma Avenue as the remaining Black Majority of Vespucci would've been gentrified to either other regions within Los Santos or to low income enclaves such as Vista Del Mar where majority of the members of the Buffalo Soldiers would reside in. Ironically the Vista Del Mar would even compressed in with more affluent areas nearby. The group composes of mainly members with African American heritage but even others belonging to the category of “Black” as a category of race due to it’s rather nationalistic, and prideful roots of how it came to exist in the first place. However, it may even rarely hold members of other races under special circumstances due to the low income areas of Vespucci being rather a melting pot of different cultures. The group first started off as all young teenagers living within the same community of each other often hanging around and finding ways to make money through whichever hustle they can find, one thing they especially loved to do was carjacking, and joy riding when it was it's earliest stage of organisation until eventually the clique organised into that of an actual gang as more connections within the Black Car in jail and outside. More members would have also been joining and intiating into the Buffalos as the crew finally now has the manpower to operate like that of a gang. The gang would often be a rather tightly knit community often keeping top relations with the locals of La Puerta almost acting as the "robin hoods." Of the community, and the Vista Del Mar as the gang intends to keep top relations with the locals due to having been around each other and growing up for a long time seeing each other and having family that's all familiar with each other one way or another. The group eventually came to it's realisation of turning the clique into an actual crew banding together in order to escape from poverty within Vespucci Beach and doing whatever it takes to do so as long as it did not harm the community in La Puerta. One big reason for the formation of the Vespucci Buffalo Soldiers was due to the fact that white supremacist organisations, or other ethnic gangs in the vicinity may often come along and harass black residents living within the proximity of Vespucci whether getting robbed, beaten, or perhaps even killed as the juvenile locals eventually grew sick of that forming their own crew finding more power in unison operating as an organisation. Overall the reasoning for it’s prideful name to be known as the V-Town Buffalo Soldiers is due to their militant nature along with its sense of identity, with the older member’s drive to organize and band up to protect each other within an outnumbered %6'er yet tightly knit community in Vespucci with racism, and aggression received from other group using the name Buffalo Soldiers as reference to the actual regiment of African American soldiers in the US army due to one thing in common being Black, and militant. History of Black Population in Vespucci It could even be said that some of the locals or members of the crew would not describe them much as a “gang.” But, rather just soldiers with a common cause to defend their community against bigger threats within Vespucci and to support each other as a community with even the older influential members of the crew themselves not seeing this as a gang but rather a movement despite it very much operating like that of a gang in the end of the day with their financial gains mostly being from criminal activities, claiming a turf, and even bringing their sense of identity wherever they go tagging up spots in the La Puerta area especially around the apartments, and low income housing they reside in as a sense of pride and identity as members will usually wear Brown rags and even rocking Buffalo Bills merch as their sense of uniformity. They will also use other forms of uniformity such as tattoos relating to the Buffalos, or over all symbolism that is evident to being that of the Buffalo soldiers or even the neighbourhood they reside in. Although having hatred for white supremacist groups, along with other street gangs flaunting their power upon the black residents of Vespucci they usually appear to more focus on making money, along with gaining more power as a priority rather than constant clashes with other groups however do have no qualms engaging in conflict to those who trouble them but in the end of day their main motivation is money, and power in order to help them operate in respect of defending their community, along with bringing more profit towards the gang. While most gangs appear to make most of their profits from the sale of narcotics. This doesn't appear to be the case for the Buffalo Soldiers with members mainly having an affinity for grand theft auto with them being responsible for the increasing reports of missing vehicles, along with robberies being conducted on vehicles with members still yet to be caught in action from how covert their procedures area whenever engaging in vehicle theft. Eventually all that changed as the clique evolved into that of a gang with some form of organisation as nowadays they engage in other forms of criminal activities such as drug dealings, robberies, financial scams, as they grew more vast, and ambitious now adopting a policy of "hustle by any means." As the group grown larger they started facing away from their original affinity of grand theft auto, and joyriding from when the original founders of the group were often hardcore car thieves, and joyriders, as they now built more connections, and gained more manpower to operate like that of an actual gang rather than that of a clique. Members often have various ways of identifying themselves as stated they will usually flag themselves with Brown Rags, along with tattoos related to crew with abbreviations of “Buffalo Soldiers.” or overall symbolism related to the Buffalo soldiers or even the neighbourhood they reside in. Overall it could be easy to identify a member of the group if they appear to openly appear to flaunt their belonging to the gang or perhaps not if the member so chooses not to express their loyalty with tattoos but it can indeed be spotted out carefully from their choice of colours or their behaviour and members often having black nationalistic views in their choice of ideologies. They also appear to have an insignia team with that being of the Buffalo Bills as members will often wear merch or caps related to the Buffalo Bills even using tattoos related to the NFL team too in relation to the name "Buffalo Soldiers." OOC NOTE We are an open faction on request that qualité roleplay is provided along with following by the server rules, and overall providing an enjoyable and fun environment to create the community vibes! CK perms will automatically be applied to the those who can enforce CK perms once your character with those two being @AfroGxaiden and @Figenskar is roled associate+ we will not CK locals and will even allow locals of any age or background to roleplay with us, If they do not wish to take the path of a gang banger! We plan on aiming to make a fictional predominantly black street crew which will eventually this will evolve into a semi-organised street gang with black nationalistic roots taking some elements of real life criminal organisations into one big fictional idea. If you wish to be part of this concept feel free to join the discord so long you value quality roleplay, character development, along with character portrayal, along with having interest in roleplaying as a black teenager preferably 13-16 residing within Vespucci(If you wish to take the gang banging path of the faction) although token characters will be allowed it may need to be regulated at a low percentage of membership in the group. Overall the key things we are looking for is Quality roleplay, along with character development hence we won't tolerate trolls, or unserious roleplayers. However, if you're down to be part of this group feel free to join the discord and create a character and engage with the members hanging around the designated spots of the faction or even shoot me a pm about further questions. https://discord.gg/ceJNnWemFp

Shaun Orlovsky comes from Liberty City, raised in a broken home by his alcoholic Father, but cared for by his Grandfather more often than not. Shaun's mother died when he was young leaving him to his Father. His Father Dimitri Orlovsky could not handle the grief of losing his wife, so he dealt with his problems at the bottom of a bottle, becoming a waste of space and neglectful to Shaun. His Grandfather owned a diner that was popular in the area, serving the best American Dishes but the business was not perfect, it was located in Dukes, a notoriously rough area in Liberty City. Thugs would try and rob the diner or assault and scare its customers. As Shaun got older he got into boxing begin one of the best in the gym, he used his skills to be security at the diner when he was not in the kitchen, roughing up anyone who was a danger to his Grandfathers business. Shaun was a kind person at heart, he was everything his father was not, but that was always his weakness, he trusts too easy. His Grandfather passed away from natural causes leaving the diner to Shaun, but it went down hill from there. It was too hard to both manage a business and protect it, a business man came into the diner one day to speak to Shaun, he offered to buy the place for a healthy sum, seeing no reason to keep the place running himself and nothing around him worth staying for he sold the diner, taking the money and moved to Los Santos for a fresh start, a new life, a better life, but he has not found what he is looking for.

Name: Derek TseungAlias: ShadeAffiliations: Oceanside Wah ChingAge: 22-23Nationality: AmericanHeritage: American-ChineseOccupation: Tattoo artist

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