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18th Street is a multi-ethnic, but mostly Hispanic transnational criminal organization that started as a street gang in Los Santos. Sources claim the gang has approximately 15,000 members in Los Santos County and is considered to be one of the largest Hispanic street gangs; a title they share with one of their biggest rivals, Florencia 13. However, this can be quite misleading. 18th Street is a collection of individual autonomous gangs. They're known to have hundreds of cliques spread throughout Los Santos and nationwide, however, they don't always know of each other's existence and they don't always get along. 18th Street was originally a sub-set under the Clanton 14th Street gang, however, many core members of the Clanton 14 members opposed the idea of having 18th street as a separate clique. This was due to the clique leader of Clanton 18 being a non-Mexican-American member. This led to Clanton 18 dropping the Clanton from their name and becoming their own gang. This led to Clanton 14th and the newly formed 18th Street gang becoming bitter rivals. After taking over a large chunk of Clanton 14th's territory, 18th Street sought to spread its influence to South Los Santos. 18th Street’s rapid and aggressive expansion led to a lot of struggles for territory. As they continued to battle with more established Hispanic and African-American gangs in the area, they began recruiting people outside the Hispanic community to increase their numbers. War with Bloods The feud between Bloods and 18th Street is believed to have begun in the early 1990s when members of the 18th Street gang and members of the Black P Stones gang got into a conflict which led to an 18th Street gang member being murdered. The murder started a cycle of violence between various Blood sets and 18th Street, with the feud later being fueled by their bitter rivals Florencia 13’s alignments with 18th Street’s enemies. 18th Street Today 18th Street today is considered to be one of the biggest Hispanic gangs within Los Santos County. 18th Street has gone through numerous gang injunctions over the past few years, and dozens of arrests, yet the gang grows stronger day by day. Lately, multiple 18th Street subsets are known to be cliquing up together to be more unified. The FBI has launched “Operation Breaking Bad” where they indicted multiple members of the 18th Street gang, namely the Rancho Park Locos(RPK) clique, for their roles in a methamphetamine distribution ring. During the investigation, more than 50 ounces of methamphetamine were seized, as well as several handguns, shotguns, and assault rifles.

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Foundations of a Menace - The Jamestown Projects. The Jamestown Projects were constructed in the late 1950's, this being only a few years after 18th Street had made a presence in South Los Santos, specifically, E. Jamestown St. At the time it was still considered a small time group of rascals and hadn't grown the reputation it holds today. Around the 1960's, construction on the project buildings was finished and housed by labor workers of the city of Rancho. The occupants being mainly of Hispanic background. Los Santos Government made a choice to also alter street name stretching from Dutch London St. and Little Bighorn Ave. to Jamestown St. due to the projects plotted inbetween. This although did not extinguish the presence of 18th Street, they'd stick to where they started and what they started. Some residents of the Jamestown Projects would also gravitate to the 18st. although not in large numbers. The gang began to rapidly grow only once they'd open doors to people of all race and ethnicity. The already established 18th Streeters, being just East of the projects, didn't pay much mind to the housing and it's occupants. The swift waft of the hand to the West was only given until there'd form another group of delinquents - Jamestown 13. The two'd have neutral relations as they'd both align with the Mexican Mafia until these relations turned hostile. These relations turned hostile once the group on the West had been green-lit by the higher ranking members of the Mexican Mafia, cutting ends lose and leading into daily gun-fire in the city of Rancho, in result, increasing the murder rate in the city only due to the events following the green-light and their close borders. The gang would form a stable and reputable presence in the city of Rancho, having grown in numbers, a lot of members moving from the neighborhood and to other parts of Los Santos, still living in poor areas they'd begin to make new cliques of the gang and continue operations. This would now put 18th Street on the map as one of the largest and most notorious street gangs in all of Los Santos. The Rancho Locos The Rancho Locos are a sub set of the 18th Street Gang. Originally started by locals in the area under Gabriel Lopez, his wife next in line to take lead of the set. Gabriel's wife was a ruthless and strict leader, but due to heart complications her reign was cut short. The only logical step forward was for Lucas to pick up the set as he was always the one to set an example for the younger members. They're settled and located on Jamestown St, just across the Jamestown Projects. Documentated as an active criminal group in Rancho for fifty years on-going. Lucas earned his place at the top with the willingness to do what it takes. It took him a year of compling to anything that previous set leaders had in place for him - he put in work and earned his place at the top. Lucas took the third generation of the Rancho Locos under his wing, taking any troubled teen in the neighborhood with him. The set is known for it's drug distribution in the city of Rancho. They're infamous for renting out street corners which are usually occupied by rogue drug dealers, in the end they get taxed by the clique, any troubles received are answered with violence. The Rancho Locos drug distribution is documented by the South Bureau of the Los Santos Police Department, this also raising their presence in the Los Santos County Jail. This sub-set and the gang in general is known as the children's army, most gang members being in the age group of twelve to fifteen. Members are targeted at a young age due to an easier influence and smaller chance of punishment. Work is put in by the younger members who wish to prove themselves and earn street credit and notiriety from others. Eighteenth street are a diverse group, embracing anyone who wants to be apart of the gang. They have no specifics on background or race which makes their numbers so large and their influence in the streets unavoidable. Joining results in an eighteen second beat-down by other members, the eighteen second rule also applies for punishment. This is what hardens the member, they realize that this can be received by a member which they consider a brother, this makes them realize how much worse an enemy would do, hardening them. Members show affiliation with the colors black and blue. Black is to show their main affiliation to eighteenth street which is usually paired with a black bandana. If a sports jersey is worn, it is usually with the number '18'. The color blue is to show respect to the Mexican Mafia which the eighteenth street members are linked with in the prison system. You can often see members sporting both colors. Affiliation is also shown in graffiti with variants of the eighteen - XV3. Puppet Gabriel Lopez known as - Puppet, was the main overseer of the Rancho Locos street operations in the 1990's. He did this from within the Los Santos County Jail, giving instructions to on-street shot caller - Martin 'Domino' Dominguez. Puppet was a member of the Mexican Mafia and very well known and respected in the prison system. They began working together on Rancho's Eastide in 1992. Domino was an up and coming soldier in the RCLS, known to be very loyal to the organization. They faced a threat when one of Puppet's Mexican Mafia rivals tried to cut into their profits, sending a 'tax collecter' inside of the Rancho Loco's territory to take over collections. On the night of January fourth, Domino and another gunman waited in an alleyway on the Eastside of Rancho and around midnight, Trucko's car pulled in. The two gunman opened fire on both him and his girlfriend, killing both. For this Puppet gave Domino a promotion, appointing him the shot-caller of the Rancho Locos. Domino quickly set out to prove his worth, ordering the gang to step up their extortion rings, having members work twenty-four seven, two shifts a day of collectors. He took an opperation that made two to three thousand dollars a week to ten-fifteen thousand dollars a week, increasing the profits dramatically. These operations were estimated to bring in profits of eighty five thousand dollars a week, due to this Domino established a strict hierarchy within the set. At the top, Puppet, running operations from Jail, next in line Puppet's wife Janie Lopez. She was known as the Senorita - the lady boss, collecting money for Puppet on the street. This succes brought unwelcome scrutiny, federal authorities taking interest in Domino and the clique. Domino had proven too good at the job. On March fourth, 1999, federal authorities raided the houses of Janie Lopez, her sister and her mother based on information they had gathered from wire-taps. In the houses they found stashes of money, in one being four hundred fifty thousand, another stash of eighty thousand and nine thousand. The last stash was a payment from Domino, these raids caused suspicion within the clique that someone had cooperated with police. Rumors went around and Janie Lopez concluded that it was Domino. She convinced Puppet that the shot caller had betrayed them, he sent a letter from prison stating; 'Fumigate the rat'. At his office Domino awaited the payment of one of his collectors, afterwards he returned to his car when suddenly several members of the gang began shooting at the car. Domino was given the greenlight - marked for murder. He was shot five times buut managed to survive, he came to a realisation. After this failed assasination, the gang fell apart and fell to the FBI. An agent knew he had been recovering at a friends house, the Police gathered a warrant for his arrest, taking him in custody. The loyal shot caller, feeling betrayed, turned on Puppet and became an informant. This was very useful for the FBI, causing a down-fall for the clique.