18th Street Decker Park Locos

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18st Gang Overview

 

The Barrio 18, also known by the nicknames Mara 18, La 18 or 18th Street Gang is a large Mexican & Central American street gang that was originally founded by Chicano & Honduran street gang members in the Koreatown area of Los Santos in the mid to late 1950s. The Mexican American street gang members in question identified as Chicanos and were disaffected members of a local Sureño street gang, the Clantone 14 gang. These disaffected members of the Barrio 18  gang left Clantone 14 when the latter refused to allow Central American immigrants into their street gang in favour of keeping their membership based strictly towards Mexican Americans and the Chicano subculture. These events led to the formation of the Barrio 18 gang and the longstanding rivalry with Clantone 14 that still exists today.

 

The creation of the 18th Street gang was not accepted by other Sureño street gang sets or Maravilla street gang sets within Little Seoul, South Central and East Los Santos. Thus, throughout the remainder of the 1960s and most of the 1970s, it was engaged in street gang warfare in the streets in order to establish itself within the city. In order to bolster its rank and file, it pursued its policy of recruiting Latin American immigrants and non-Latinos throughout the 1970s. This policy of recruiting Latin American immigrants and non-Latinos effectively made the 18th Street Gang one of the first large multiracial and multi-ethnic street gangs in all of Los Santos. Come the mid 1970s, the 18th Street gang were well on their way to becoming entrenched within the street gang underworld of Los Santos and by the turn of the decade, this aim had been accomplished. In 1978 and 1979, its presence in Murietta Valley, South Central Los Santos and Western Los Santos was officially noted by the police. 

 

The Barrio 18 saw a vast influx of Central Americans joining up with its rank and file in the 1980s through to the 1990s. These Central Americans primarily came to the Latino American and African American slums of West Los, South Central and East Los Santos from the countries of Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras though a considerable amount came from Nicaragua. These Central American war refugees and socioeconomic immigrants mostly either joined with the Barrio 18 gang or the newly formed Mara Salvatrucha, though a minority of them joined the Sureños and Maravilla despite the latter two being reluctant to accept them. The barbaric nature of the proxy wars and civil wars in Guatemala, El Salvador and Nicaragua created brutal street gang warfare in the streets of Los Santos and helped both the 18th Street Gang and the Mara Salvatrucha attain their high level of notoriety for barbarism that they're so well known for today.

 

Throughout the 1980's the Barrio 18 found a common ally in the newly formed Mara Salvatrucha Stoners. Amused by the wildness of the new 'Stoners' on the block, the Barrio 18 began inviting them to their parties, schooling them on how to carry themselves and how to be taken more seriously by the other street gangs, who didn't take too kindly to non Chicanos at the time. Over time the two gangs bonded, even working together to fight rival street gangs such as their lifelong enemies in Clantone 14 or the Drifters 13 (DFS) and Playboys 13 (PBS) gangs. Despite this, over time the two gangs' relationship began to crumble. The memory of what happened was hazy, but some stories say that the MS-13 was moving in on 18th Street territory and had allegedly kidnapped some of the 18th Street Gang's prostitutes. A more accurate tells of a drunken dispute between gangbangers at a party, in which a young but highly respected Mara Stoner was beaten to death in an alleyway. Regardless of the circumstance, a vicious gang war had started between the MS-13 and 18th Street Gangs in Little Seoul by the start of the 1990's.

 

All throughout the 2000's leading up to 2020, the 18th Street gang have spread across the west coast of the United States and elsewhere within the country. It is known to operate in the form of street gang sets throughout various cities in states such as San Andreas, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Florida, Alderney, Liberty State, West Virginia and Washington D.C. It has a more covert and organized presence in Illinois, Liberty City, Alderney and Philadelphia. Because of deportations of its members back to Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua which have taken place since the 1990s and 2000s, it has spread throughout Mexico and Central America as a result. It has a strong presence in Northern Mexico, Southern Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras. It has a smaller yet just as powerful presence in Nicaragua with smaller pockets of the street gang's influence being found in Belize and Costa Rica. Throughout Central America, where the 18th Street Gang is known simply as Barrio 18 or Mara 18 split into two seperate categories. The Mara 18 Revolutionaries and the Mara 18 Surenos. Both groups are at odds with eachother along with with smaller Central American barrios such as La Mao Mao, La Mirada Locos, Mara Maquina along with its lifelong bitter rivalry with the Mara Salvatrucha and its respective programs, which vastly outnumber the Mara 18.

In the states in which it operates, its most noteworthy enemies consist of the Mara Salvatrucha, some Sureño sets, the Norteños, the Bloods and the Crips. Other lesser known enemies include Midwest and east coast street gangs such as the Latin Kings, Vice Lords, Gangster Disciples, Dominicans Don't Play, Salvadoran With Pride, Trinitarios, Ñetas and the Zoe Pound gang. The Barrio 18 gang is known for infighting outside of Los Santos and outside of the Southern San Andreas county of Blaine County. Infighting is common in Northern San Andreas and in other states in which it has a presence, be it in the form of street gang sets or more covert and organized.

The only time that street gang rivalries and infighting are put aside is when Barrio 18 gang members are incarcerated in state and or federal prisons that have a presence of the Mexican Mafia (eMe). 18 Streeters are considered by the Mexican Mafia to be Sureños in state and federal prisons and out in the streets. Thus, their sets in the streets pay taxes to the Mexican Mafia. The Mexican Mafia can call upon Barrio 18 gang members to assist in their criminal activities in the streets as well as in state and federal prisons whenever they see fit.

 

 

18th Street Decker Park Locos

 

The 18th Street Decker Park Locos (18 DPLS) is a medium sized clique of the Barrio 18 Gang that operates on the northern portion of Ginger Street and around Decker Street in Northern Little Seoul. This particular Barrio 18 clique traces its history back to the early 1970s, when Central American teenagers formed it as a tagger crew called Decker Park Locos (DPLS). In 1978, they became a part of the 18th Street gang in Los Santos and started calling themselves the 18 Decker Park Locos (18DPLS). While in the transition to a set of the 18th Street gang, they became one of the main distributors of illicit narcotics such as heroin and crack cocaine in the whole Westside district.

 

Almost solely because of their various prolific crimes, they were at one point, considered one of the most active 18th Street gang sets in the Westside district until the late 1990s. On March 20, 1997, the Los Santos Police Department's Gang & Narcotics Unit started a month long injunction on the 18th Street Vinewood Gangsters. This netted 17 arrests for numerous crimes that primarily included drugs, weapons, thefts and murders.

 

15 gang members were convicted in a criminal state court over the course of the 2000's; The remaining 2 gang members were deported back to their native countries in Central America. This included the Decker Park clique's top shotcaller, Josue “Demon” Orejon. It was alleged during the criminal trial that Orejon was a prospective member of the Mexican Mafia (La eMe) in the streets. A month after his deportation to his native Nicaragua, Buitrago was shot to death in a suburban Managua supermarket, thought to have been the victim of an armed robbery gone wrong.

 

They were additionally involved in numerous business extortions, truck hijackings, stolen firearm sales and premeditated murders. Clashes with rival street gangs such as Mara Salvatrucha and the Clantone 14 Gang have broken out since the late 1980s. These clashes have claimed the lives of well over 50 street gang members, 4 police officers and several dozen innocent people over the course of 3 decades.

 

During the early 2000s, the set successfully rebuilt itself amid heightened police scrutiny and violent pressure from rival gangs. Throughout the remainder of the mid to late 2000s, the clique tended to mainly rely on assistance from neighbouring 18th Street cliques such as the Calais Lil Cycos (18CLCS) and the Grand View Locos (18GVLS) in matters of settling disputes with rival gangs and recruiting new youths. This forged a very close relationship between the various 18th Street cliques across K-Town and in the nearby Strawberry neighbourhood that still exists to this day.

 

As of the late 2010s, the clique is considered to be completely independent from the influence of other 18th Street cliques. Although a number of their members are currently serving lengthy incarcerations in the San Andreas penal system, they continue to remain quite active in the suburb.

 

Presently the 18th Street Decker Park Locos are involved in an uneasy truce with the Mara Salvatrucha Palomino Locos (MS PLS) clique and have been since 2005 when gang wars broke out in Little Seoul involving several MS-13 cliques going rogue against, causing temporary ceasefires to be put in place amongst various West Los Santos Hispanic gangs. While there hasn't been any serious bloodshed between 18 DPLS and MS PLS, an uneasy attitude towards eachother and a bitter hatred continues to be held towards the other side.

 

The 18th Street Decker Park Locos have a long history of fighting other Sureno and also African American gangs throughout West Los, South Central and East Los. Presently they are involved in vicious rivalries with various Mara Salvatrucha (MS13) cliques, Barrio Rockford Locos (RFLS), Ghetto BoyZ 27 (GBZ), Harpys 13 (HPS), Culver City Boyz 13 (CCB), Playboy Surenos 13 (PBS), Easy Riders 13 (ERS), Drifters 13 (DFS), Crazy Riders 13 (CRS) along with the African American Rollin 20's Neighborhood Bloods (RTB), Mid City Stoners (MCS), Carnales 13 (CNS), various Crip, Brim & Piru street gangs along with the Black P Stones (BPS).

Edited November 25, 2020 by aldo

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Edited November 25, 2020 by bluez

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