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  1. A Westcoast Saga The Westcoast Village Crip Gang [WCVCG], also known as the "Splash Gang," is a predominately African American street gang from Vespucci Beach, Los Santos. Their points of interests are located throughout the Vespucci Canals. They're one of many Crip syndicates that represent and fall under the 3x Card, their gang history dating back to the late 1970s-80s. The name "Splash" derives from the surrounding bodies of water throughout Vespucci Beach. They were originally known as the "Village Park Boys" from La Puerta that were active during the late 1970s, probably from about 1976 to approximately 1981. They picked up and added the "Westcoast" moniker based on geographical reasons, mainly because they were located in West Los Santos. The Village Park Boys [VTB] were a predominately African American quasi-street gang that hung out in the area of Magellan Avenue adjacent to the Vespucci Suites housing projects on the westside of La Puerta. Although they were not official Crip members, their close relationship to surrounding Gangster Crip sets made them rivals to all Blood(s) and other Crip & Mexican gangs in West Los Santos. They were active in the 1970s, going into the early 1980s until their identity lessened as the Westcoast Village Crip Gang's identity grew stronger. The Westcoast Crips are known to sport apparel by the Seattle Mariners & Washington Nationals, accompanied by the traditional color blue sported by Crips. CeeCee Gibson Jr., the founding father of what became the Westcoast Village Crip Gang today, who himself transformed into "The Savior of Crip," died on Dec. 1st, 2021, of lung cancer. In the early 1970s, the Black Panthers and other radical organizations were no longer seen to pose a major threat, and law enforcement agencies at all levels started to concentrate on gangs, the new "public enemy number one." Beginning in 1972, the Los Santos County Sheriff's Department received federal funding to create a special "Street Gang Detail" squad to combat the groups. By the spring of 1992, it seemed that nearly two decades of gang control measures had failed. As with the rebellions of the late 1960s and early 1970s, more enforcement seemed to only precipitate more violence in response. But the consequences for low-income Black communities were now more dire. These communities, in LS and other cities, were under attack, caught in a war among rival gangs and between gangs and the police. In 2002, then City Attorney Vinh Hahn, requested the first injunction against the entire gang in their neighborhood. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed an appeal on behalf of the WCVCG and a judge eventually denied Hahn's request because the gang injunction, as it was written, was a violation of the First Amendment right of freedom of association to the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment rights to due process. A couple months later, Hahn went back to court with a modified version of his initial injunction and was able to get a judge to approve a preliminary injunction against the ACLU's recommendations. Since the 1980s, the mostly African American community within Vespucci Beach has seen an influx of Hispanic immigrants into this working-class neighborhood that has reduced the size of the Black community and the membership of the gang, which still exists in the same area. Village Park Boys CeeCee "Blue Baby" Gibson Jr. was born on Sep. 24, 1960, in South Los Santos, but by age three was living on the Westside of La Puerta, around Magellan Avenue. He was a sweet, loving child who relished putting together model cars, playing and watching sports and was a big fan of the local teams, the Panic, the Shrimps and the Corkers. He was also a "mama's boy." His love for cars made him grow into a big-time car enthusiast, owning several during his peek. "Back in the day, Blue Baby woulda probably kicked my ass from the Canals back to La Puerta if I ever called him a "mama's boy", but his older sister Cynthia "Tiny" Gibson could get away with it, so I’ll put that claim on her," childhood friend Urellus Dunn said. "He was a mama's boy," said Cynthia Gibson, who spoke eloquently of her younger brother during his funeral at Hill Valley Church of God on West Eclipse Boulevard, Pacific Bluffs, Los Santos and Route 68. "I would tell him that, even when he was older. He'd tell me; "I'm not a little boy anymore, I'm a grown man." I'm seven years older than CeeCee, so I really didn't know the other side of him, because I got married and moved away." Zaquan "Forty" Manning, an original Westside Crip, said that when he went away to prison for his role in the infamous 1972 "Vespucci Boardwalk Murder" of Dallevante Curry, CeeCee "was just a boy playing sports in the park." But, by the time Manning was released 12 years later, CeeCee had become "Blue Baby" and was "a for real Crip." He was given his nickname by two legends, "Tweety Loc" and Reilly "Smokey" Oliver, because the way he was devoted to the Crip lifestyle since they met him. They claimed he was already born a Crip. He had "hands" and charisma that enabled him to connect with many people, he tried piecing together decade-lasting beefs at some point in his late-Crippin days. But, by then, the original intent of the Crips, at least as espoused by the gang's original founder(s), to protect communities, had fractured. On the bleak corner of Magellan Ave and Bay City Avenue is a drab pink, two-story apartment building— 4826 E. Magellan Ave.— complete with runaway weeds, peeling paint, three rusty barbecue grills and a large cart labeled Jim's Hot Dogs, all nestled against a ratty chain-link fence. It was here on a warm December night in 2021 when CeeCee Gibson took his last breath. His daughter and caretaker, Monique Gibson, came inside his room late at night for a routine check-up. Gibson was on hospice for stage 4 lung cancer. She panicked after realizing he was no longer breathing, then immediately rushed him to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Since Blue Baby's death, the street battles between WCVCG and other West Los street gangs have been among the deadliest in Los Santos, if not San Andreas. So, at CeeCee Gibson's funeral, it was a sign of upmost respect when some Vespucci 13 & Del Perro Piru veterans showed up to pay their respect to Blue Baby. "You don't find better people than Blue," said original Del Perro Piru member "Lazy Ru," who mulled about the church lobby with other Pirus and Sureños. "I have the up-most respect for him. He brought people together. Look around. I hope the younger people can learn from him." Another triple OG Piru said the same. "I love him," said Martín "Zombie" Yepes. "Regardless of the beef between the two hoods, he was my friend." "Smokey" Oliver, who with Antoniette Matthews and the love of Rayford's life, Janette Parker, was at his side when he died, said he hoped the outpouring of respect would spread throughout the city. "We need to all come together." The funeral began with two scripture readings, one for the Old Testament, Psalms 23, and one from the New Testament, Peter 5. His obituary was read by Priest Jerome of South L.S., and then a video was played. Sprunk, the soda company, did a very brisk business at Gibson's funeral, especially during that video tribute which played George Clinton's December 1982 hit "Atomic Dog" as background music. When the lyrics at the top of this story rang out, there were some dry eyes in the church, but not very many. It’s always a memorable scene when men with 18-inch biceps who’ve done 18 years in Twin Towers Correctional Facility get teary-eyed. Blood On The Beach Law enforcement officials in Los Santos have charged six alleged gang members with committing four homicides, multiple shootings and various other crimes in a pocket of West L.S. hit hard by the city's recent surge in violence. Police said all six men— identified in charging documents as members of the Westcoast Village Crips— regularly committed violence in furtherance of the gang and in retaliation for threats to its members, instilling fear and attempting to assert control in neighborhoods including Vespucci Canals and La Puerta. Among its victims were individuals whom the gang believed to be members of rival Bloods sets and whom it conspired to kill; prosecutors alleged. One was a 57-year-old bystander killed when the men opened fire at a rival on a scooter, and another was killed when they opened fire into a crowd of people on the beach's shoreline, prosecutors alleged. "This was a gang that was terrorizing several communities," said Capt. Victor Gonzalez, commander of the LSPD Vespucci Bureau's Homicide Division. "It's the gang life, and part of what they try to do is spread fear and influence." L.S. County Dist. Atty. Pablo Gascón, whose office filed a raft of charges against the men, including murder and conspiracy to commit murder, said he is "committed to making sure there are serious consequences for anyone who lacks compassion for another human life," adding that his office was working with the families of the victims to provide "trauma-informed services." The accused are Tyrese Brown, 19; Donjae Lindsey, 19; Oday Fowler, 23; Mario Kitchens, 26; Bruce Mitchell, 26; Javion Richardson, 34. All are residents of L.S., police said. Police arrested five of the men in a series of raids carried out by multiple agencies, including the LSPD and the L.S. County Sheriff’s Department. The one other— had managed to evade capture as of late the following week the other five were arrested. "We couldn’t locate him on the day we served the warrant," Gonzalez said. In addition to the arrests, the LSPD said police recovered eight firearms and "other evidence related to multiple crimes" during the raids. Gonzalez would not specify what that additional evidence included. The homicide victims whose deaths police are attributing to the gang members, all of whom were fatally shot and killed in West L.S., include Arron Jameson, 18, killed in Vespucci Beach; Anthony Woods, 57, killed in Del Perro; Timothy Lee, 24, killed in front of Vespucci Suites in La Puerta; Kodi Jones, 23, and Erika Mixon, 24, both killed in Del Perro; and Dorian Feemster, 29, killed in Vespucci Beach, prosecutors and police said. In addition to the killings, LSPD officials said the suspects had been linked to multiple other shootings, attempted murders, assaults, robberies and stolen vehicles. The Sheriff's Department did not respond to a request for comment. Prosecutors alleged the defendants began killing people after one of their own was gunned down on the evening of Sept. 26, 2020. Brown and another Westcoast Village Crips were outside Brown's home on Magellan Avenue when a member of the Del Perro Piru gang shot at them, according to court records. Brown wasn't hit, but the other man— identified in coroner's records as Dekion Garner, 21— was killed. What followed, prosecutors alleged, was a series of retaliatory shootings that targeted people who belonged to— or were mistakenly believed to be affiliated with— various Bloods gangs in West Los Santos, in some cases leaving bystanders dead and wounded. Present-Day VCG By the mid-1980s, when the supply of cocaine and the development of cheaply processed "crack" began to spread through urban areas, "survival" came to mean joining the loose network of drug suppliers and salesmen, many of them older gang members using their connections to expand their business. The Westcoast Village Crips, now claiming specific neighborhood boundaries in a manner unthinkable in the early 1970s, had de facto control of who sold drugs on the street or through rock houses. Poor youngsters who might not have cared about "gangbanging" but wanted to make fast money through drugs realized that they needed to pledge at least surface loyalty to a neighborhood's gang if they wanted a piece of the action. Regardless, the Westcoast Village Crip Gang became nothing more than a new urban gang who used drug dealing as their main source of income like many other street gangs. Gibson, who died from lung cancer in 2021, was by most accounts in and out of jail too often to make an imprint. Gradually, new cliques within the WCVC street gang began to sprout. With more cliques of younger adolescents came newer confrontations. With confrontations came notoriety. County juvenile camps became training and recruitment grounds. Today, according to law enforcement gang specialists, there are fewer than 60 members or “associates” of the Westcoast Village Crips— young men on the fringe. The older members that are now inactive remain in TTCF, serving the rest of their life in prison for crimes committed over the years. The gang has calmed down due to recent indictments and murders of key members over the years, with the younger members and newer generation becoming the face of the gang and doing anything to make a name for themselves.
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  3. "If it's the last thing that I gotta do, if it's the last point that I gotta prove, to my fuckin squad I'ma keep it true and represent the gang till I'm restin in a tomb" - Young Dopey Left to right; Florencia Echegoyen, 2015 @ Decker Park before MS13 RICO indictment ~ Florencia Echegoyen, 2020 @ Lindsay Park after release from Bollingbroke State Pen BACKSTORY: Florencia Echegoyen a/k/a La Greñas was a W/S Mara Salvatrucha 13 gang member, originally born into a mid-end family in West Los Santos; a couple of them being affiliated to the W/S Mara Salvatrucha 13 themselves. Florencia Echegoyen was a good girl up until she was 14, when she was placed under the observacione role within W/S Mara Salvatrucha 13; meaning she was being observed for membership status. She became a chequeo at the age of 15, ironically being the same year that the Federal Bureau of Investigations and Los Santos Police Department RICO indicted countless W/S Mara Salvatrucha 13 affiliates, her being one of them. She was sent to a juvenile detention center where she was officially inducted as a member of the transnational criminal organization at 16 years old by other young affiliates, and was given a 13 second beatdown to get jumped into the gang; in private away from juvenile security. At the age of 15; Florencia Echegoyen and several other Mareras jumped a rival female gang member from Drifters 13, where it resulted in Florencia Echegoyen hanging the rival female with a rope; essentially lynching her. This is where Florencia Echegoyen's street name; La Greñas comes into play, since it translates to "Tangle", and the rope tangled multiple times during the lynching; Florencia Echegoyen's homegirls nicknamed her La Greñas. Once Florencia Echegoyen hit 18 years old, she was officially transferred to the women's facility of Bollingbroke State Penitentiary where she served a remaining 17 months before being released back into the general population. Once released back into the public, she spent roughly two years in the W/S Mara Salvatrucha doing countless things to keep ship afloat, until Gabriella "Feisty" Delgado was released after being made keyholder of MS in the state of San Andreas. Once "Feisty" Delgado became the acting keyholder, just before her reigns came to an end she gave Florencia the go ahead to walk away from the W/S Mara Salvatrucha. After walking away from MS13, Florencia got deeper into the underworld of Organized Crime instead of going legit. In her mind, getting away from MS13, and removing the tattoos; were only going to help her go far in the underworld. Due to being a woman in a man's world, her Mexican uncle from the Badiraguato region of Sinaloa helped line up a connection for her to get in touch with some people, and directed her to the most infamous street crew under the Border Brothers 22 in San Andreas; Blood Money Inc. Anything used in character from this thread will be reported, as it'll be considered metagaming. Everything on this thread, pictures and backstory are for the aesthetic and vibe and also to give people a short little insight to Florencia Echegoyen's life.
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