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[edit] List of gangs in Grand Theft Auto series

The Grand Theft Auto series of computer and video games features a myrid of fictional gangs and criminal organizations of various ethicities, histories and activities, which have served as both primary and secondly vehicles in the games' plot points, as well as allies or foes of the game's characters.

The following is a list of prominent criminal gangs in the series. This article primarily deals with gangs appearing within Grand Theft Auto titles set in Grand Theft Auto III canon, including:

For gangs in Grand Theft Auto 2, see list of gangs in the Grand Theft Auto 2 article.

Note that a gang's criterion for inclusion is determined by their amount of involvement in the storyline of any Grand Theft Auto game, including the advancement of the plot or prominenet characters featured.

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

[edit] Italian-American/Sicilian gangs

[edit] Three Families/Liberty Families/The families

The Three Families[1], known also as the Liberty Families[2] and, simply, the families[3], refers to a group of three different Italian-American Mafia criminal organizations, which have been depicted to be active primarily in Liberty City and Las Venturas as of San Andreas (in 1992). The group consists of the Leone crime family, the Forelli crime family, and the Sindacco crime family. The Leones and Forellis were previously the only known Mafia families in the series after the release of Grand Theft Auto III, while the Sindaccos was only introduced in San Andreas. The term "Families" used to refer to a group of Mafia families is introduced in Vice City,[3] while the families' are only properly represented with their own dress codes, territories, and gang vehicles in Liberty City Stories.

In Grand Theft Auto: Advance, an unnamed Mafia family, referred simply as the Mafia, shares roughly the same territory in Liberty City as the Leones in GTA III.

[edit] Leone crime family/Leones/Leone family

Members of the Leone family, as depicted in GTA:III
Members of the Leone family, as depicted in GTA:III

The Leone crime family (also referred simply as the Leones and the Leone family) is a Liberty City-based Mafia family that holds various assets in Portland Island, including Cipriani's Restaurante, Sex Club 7, and Joey's Auto Painting Shop. Their main base of operations is Salvatore's mansion, which is in the northeast end of the Saint Mark's district.

Salvatore Leone, who is of Sicilian roots, became the Don of the Leone family after a bloody power struggle during the mid-1980s.[4] He has a son, Joey Leone, who much to Salvatore's dismay is not wed yet.[5]

In Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, the Leone family is also active in Las Venturas, where they hold a stake in Caligula's Casino with the Sindacco and Forelli families, as agreed upon in 1992, in an attempt to unite the three Mafia families.[6] Salvatore Leone would eventually seize total control of the casino in the same year, after the death of Johnny Sindacco and an assassination of a key Forelli member, only to have his casino robbed later in a heist organized by former ally Carl "CJ" Johnson.[7] The shock of Carl (previously a loyal associate) betraying him and stealing so much of his money right from under his nose angered him and drove the Don to paranoia.[citation needed] It remains unknown if the Leone family is still in control of the casino during Liberty City Stories and GTA III.

The Leone family is engaged in a war with the Sindacco family in Liberty City Stories, which they stand triumph, with Toni Cipriani, the Leone family's caporegime, eventually killing their boss, Paulie Sindacco.[8] In the process, they take over Paulie's Revue Bar (later renamed as "Sex Club 7") as well as the Red Light District and Hepburn Heights, destroying all the influence the Sindacco family once had on the island. They also engage in some open warfare against the Forelli family, but are mostly content to prolong the hostilities between the Sindaccos and Forellis, allowing them to wipe each other out.[8] The Forellis' power is seemingly broken when Toni unknowingly obliterated their main base of operations on Staunton Island while working for Donald Love, and later, Toni takes out the Paulie Sindacco. With Toni and Salvatore taking out the Sicilian Mafia responsible for starting the gang wars, the Leones become the pre-eminent Mafia organization in Liberty City, taking Hepburn Heights and the Red Light District in Portland.

Three years on in GTA III, the Leones have declined in power, although they are still one of the strongest crime syndicates in town. Their territory in Chinatown has been openly taken by the Triads (although they still have businesses there), Hepburn Heights now belongs to the Diablos (as Toni Cipriani predicted it would in Liberty City Stories)[9] and the Colombian Cartel is undermining them by selling cheap SPANK from their freighter in the harbor. Joey Leone engages in a small, subtle war with the now-weakened Forelli family, ordering the killing of Mike "Lips" Forelli. In the same year, the Leones engage in a full-scale war with the Liberty City Triads after certain businesses in Chinatown stop paying their protection money to the Leones.[10] The war is long and concludes in three of the Triad warlords being killed, as well as the Triad's fish factory being destroyed by a bomb set off from a garbage truck.

Claude has worked for the Leones in GTA III, killing "Lips" Forelli, acting as their main agent against the Triads and destroying a Colombian freighter. Don Salvatore Leone eventually betrays Claude, ordering him to retrieve a car that was been secretly rigged with explosives. It is later revealed that Salvatore had grown paranoid of Claude,[10] as his situation is remarkably similar to that of Carl Johnson's, who had served Salvatore loyally but then betrayed him. Salvatore had offered Claude's death as a deal to the Colombian Cartel,[11] possibly in an attempt to unite the two organizations. As a result, Claude assassinates Salvatore as a final gesture to the Leones, strengthening his own ties with Liberty City's Yakuza.[12] Salvatore's sucessor, if there is any, is not revealed.

The family's name is similar by name to that of the Corleone family from The Godfather novel and film.

[edit] Forelli crime family/Forellis/Forelli family

The Forelli crime family (also referred simply as the Forellis and the Forelli family) is the second known Mafia family, based in Liberty City. The Don of the Forelli family in 1986 is Sonny Forelli, who would be killed by Tommy Vercetti, a renegade Forelli family member in Vice City. They had planned to expand their empire "down south",[3] by opening relations with local drug cartels through Tommy Vercetti, but that never happened due to Sonny's death and Tommy's defection. The Forellis are evidently active at the Marco's Bistro in Liberty City, and is formerly the most powerful Mafia family in Liberty City, but the deaths of many high-ranking members (such as Sonny and Franco) have led to their subsequent downfall over time.

In San Andreas, it is agreed that the Forellis would own an equal share of Caligula's Casino, along with the Sindaccos and Leones in 1992.[6] However, their part in the deal would quickly end as Salvatore Leone (the Don of the Leone family) orders Carl Johnson to gun down an unnamed underboss of the Forelli family at Marco's Bistro (having already destroyed the Sindacco family's influence in Las Venturas) so the Leone family could fully control the casino.

In Liberty City Stories, Salvatore Leone mentions Franco Forelli as the Don of the Forellis at the time, after Sonny Forelli's death in 1986. The game also reveals a Little Italy-like district in Fort Staunton that serves as the main base of the Forellis' operations after Sonny's death. The Forellis conflict with the Sindaccos after the latter fled Portland - a gang war that the Leones are only too happy to prolong, weakening both sides. Fort Staunton is destroyed by Toni Cipriani on orders from Donald Love, using plans stolen from Avery Carrington, effectively taking all their assets and power with it. What is once Little Italy would become the construction site controlled by the Colombian Cartel by GTA III. Franco Forelli's fate is unknown.

By GTA III, the Forelli family seems to have been weakened considerably, with the killing of several more Forelli members (including Mike "Lips" Forelli) by Claude on Joey Leone's orders. At this point in time, the Forellis' territory is assumed to consist solely of the St. Mark's Bistro.

[edit] Sindaccos crime family/Sindaccos/Sindacco family

A member of the Sindacco family, as depicted in GTA: Liberty City Stories
A member of the Sindacco family, as depicted in GTA: Liberty City Stories
  • Appearances: GTA:SA and GTA:LCS.
  • Presense: Liberty City (San Andreas and Liberty City Stories) and Las Venturas (San Andreas).
  • Status: Unconfirmed.

The Sindacco crime family (also referred simply as the Sindaccos and the Sindacco family) is another Italian-American Mafia family that had activities in Las Venturas, and, formerly, Liberty City. In 1992, they held an unspecified amount of territory in Liberty City after Sonny Forelli's death. The Sindacco family also hold a stake in Caligula's Casino during San Andreas, alongside the Forelli and Leone families.

Motivated by his unnamed father's wish, Johnny Sindacco, the representing underboss of the Sindaccos at the time, wanted to do business with the Leones and unite the three Mafia organizations, and this involved Salvatore pledging 5 million dollars to the Sindacco family, which Salvatore reluctantly agreed to.[6] Both outfits argued over who should run the casino, and so Ken Rosenberg (once working with the Forelli family, but then abandonned by the very powerful Vercetti Gang) was put forward as a neutral party. Ken is in the middle of the Three Families, so if one attacked the other, Ken would most likely be the target of revenge.

When Johnny Sindacco is capture by San Fierro Triads after he damages slot machines in the Triads' casino (the Four Dragons Casino), he is tied onto a car driven by Carl "CJ" Johnson and scared into revealing the Sindacco's involvement with the attack. He then went into a coma, suffering a period of psychological and physical trauma. Johnny Sindacco would later died from a shock-induced heart failure after meeting Carl for a second time. Following the death of Johnny and several of the gang's members in Las Venturas, the Sindaccos are assumed to have ceased activities the city. Their involvement with the city thereafter is unknown.

Before the end of 1998, Paulie Sindacco was expanding control throughout Las Venturas as well as using profit from Las Venturas to expand further throughout Liberty City, moving into Leone family turf in Chinatown, dealing drugs. In Liberty City Stories, on orders from Salvatore Leone, Toni Cipriani used J.D. O'Toole, who is running Paulie's Revue Bar in Liberty City's Red Light District for the Sindacco family, as an inside-man to help weaken the Sindaccos and claim the Red Light District and Paulie's Revue Bar (renamed Sex Club 7 by the Leone family) as Leone Mafia territory.

After their defeat by the Leone family in Portland Island in 1998, the Sindaccos left the industrial island for Staunton Island, moving into Forelli territory. This results in fresh conflict, this time between the Sindaccos snd the Forellis. Franco Forelli and Paulie Sindacco attempted to establish a truce between the Forelli and Sindacco families, possibly to defeat the Leone family together. Before a truce could be created, however, Toni Cipriani uses a remote control device to assume control of Paulie Sindacco's car and run over dozens of Forelli family members with it. This fuels a Sindacco family war with the Forelli family, which doesn't end until the assassination of Paulie Sindacco in Shoreside Vale later in the game[8] and the Little Italy explosion. The Sindacco family also moves into Torrington, a Yakuza territory, and takes over their Big Shot Casino until Paulie Sindacco's death gives the Yakuza the opportunity to retake it.

With no turf or front companies remaining in Liberty City, the Sindacco family have very little influence (if any at all) remaining in Liberty City by GTA III. The family's fate remains unknown, as their activity outside Liberty City after Paulie's death is never disclosed.

[edit] Vercetti Gang

Members of the Vercetti Gang
Members of the Vercetti Gang
  • Appearance: GTA:VC.
  • Presense: Vice City.
  • Status: Active, circa 1986.

The Vercetti Gang[13] is a powerful underworld outfit that is based in Vice City. The Vercetti Gang is headed by Tommy Vercetti, a renegade Forelli family member who has assumed control of many businesses and property ventures in Vice City, circa 1986. The organization is known to be involved in various illegal enterprises, including extortion, drug dealing and organized crime, and is suggestively allied to the Cuban gang and the local Biker gang. The name of the gang is only mentioned once in speech, and is seen as one that is quickly improvised by taxi dispatcher Delores during her first meeting with Tommy.[14]

Tommy Vercetti is originally dispatched by Sonny Forelli, the current Don of the Forelli family circa 1986, to Vice City to oversee a drug deal funded by Forelli money; the drug deal was supposed to be the beginning of the Forellis' expansion down south towards Vice City. After the deal is ambushed by Ricardo Diaz Vice City-based cartel members, Vercetti is forced to start over with no money or property and aided only by Ken Rosenberg, a bent lawyer with Forelli family connections. He eventually kills the perpetrator of the drug deal attack, Ricardo Diaz, aided by his friend Lance Vance. Following the killing, he seizes many properties and businesses assets in the city, with no assistance from the Forelli family; forming has own gang in the process. The expansion of the Vercetti Gang throughout Vice City made Tommy a very rich, powerful, and influential man, infuritaing Sonny Forelli, who demands his cut of the profit. Tommy's refusal to give in leads Sonny to send collectors to Vice City to attempt to cut into the profits of Tommy's businesses. Sonny's efforts are thwarted, and he eventually confronts Tommy in person, which leads to a massacre, resulting in the death of many Forelli family members, including Lance Vance (who turned against Tommy in favor of the Forellis), and Sonny himself in Vercetti's mansion. Following Sonny's death, the Vercetti Gang is assumed to have total control of Vice City, presumed to have cut ties with the Mafia "up north" and focusing on operations "down south".

The Vercetti Gang, or at least Tommy Vercetti himself, is presumed to remain in power for an undisclosed time. In the prequel film to San Andreas, The Introduction, Ken Rosenberg, who was also initiated into the Vercetti Gang in 1986, is assumed to have been abandoned by Tommy after Ken is forced into rehabilitation for prolonged cocaine abuse. Following his release, Vercetti no longer takes his calls and their relationship is dissolved. This led to Ken's subsequent assignment as a middleman for the Leones, Forellis and Sindaccos over Caligula's Casino in Las Venturas and then employment as an accountant to rapper Madd Dogg (following this, it is unknown whether he later formulated a new relationship with Vercetti).

[edit] Sicilian Mafia

  • Appearance: GTA:LCS.
  • Presense: Liberty City
  • Status: Active, circa 1998.

In Liberty City Stories, under the leadership of Massimo Torini and Uncle Leone, Salvatore Leone's elderly uncle, the Sicily-based Mafia sparks several wars between thr Three Families in Liberty City in the hope of controlling the city once the previous families had destroyed each other.[2]

Their plan is foiled when Salvatore Leone and his caporegime, Toni Cipriani, are able to hold their own against all of the other criminal organizations in the city. To retaliate, the Sicilians attempted to intimidate the mayor into convicting Leone on racketeering charges. This strategy is never fully executed due to the fact that Cipriani, under orders from Salvatore, killed Massimo Torini. After this, Salvatore's uncle acknowledged defeat and the Sicilian Mafia left Liberty City. When his nephew began to insult him after their final confrontation, he simply replied, "Every dog has his day". Three years later Salvatore Leone would, in fact, be killed by Claude.

[edit] African-American gangs

[edit] Southside Hoods

Members of the Southside Hoods, consisting of a Red Jacks member (foreground) and a Purple Nines member (background), as depicted in GTA III.
Members of the Southside Hoods, consisting of a Red Jacks member (foreground) and a Purple Nines member (background), as depicted in GTA III.
  • Gang type: Street gang(s).
  • Appearance: GTA III, GTAA, GTA:LCS.
  • Presense: Liberty City.
  • Status: Active, circa 2001.

The Southside Hoods are African-American street gangs based in Shoreside Vale, Liberty City that came to acquire their turf in Wichita Gardens while helping Toni Cipriani clear the Forelli family out of Wichita Gardens as payback for their part in having Salvatore arrested during Liberty City Stories.

The Southside Hoods comprises of the Red Jacks and Purple Nines, both rival gangs. In GTA III, the latter is known to supply the SPANK drug on local streets, prompting Red Jacks head D-Ice to launch a crippling campaign against the Purple Nines. Eventually, the Purple Nines would be extinct, with their remaining members defeated in a mêlée battle.

Southside Hoods members wear clothings of either red or purple, depending on which side they belong to, but are not seen attacking each other on the streets in GTA III and even assisting each other when attacked, contrary to what relevant missions in the game suggests. In GTA:LCS, the Red Jacks and Purple Nines are apparently united, with the presense of members from both gang aiding Toni Cipriani in seizing Wichita Gardens.

[edit] Grove Street Families

Members of the Grove Street Families
Members of the Grove Street Families

The Grove Street Families ("the Families" or "GSF" for short) are a street gang in Los Santos, San Andreas, represented in green, and serving as the native gang of Carl "CJ" Johnson. As far as street gangs in San Andreas go, the GSF are depicted as more honorable than their rival gangs, as they are against hard drugs being sold on their turf, despite the numerous other crimes and violent acts they take part in. The Grove Street Families are headed by Sean "Sweet" Johnson and his lieutenants Lance "Ryder" Wilson and Melvin "Big Smoke" Harris. Sweet is adamantly anti-narcotic, but Smoke believes the GSF have fallen from power because of Sweet's refusal to have the gang sell drugs. Their unwillingness to enter the drugs trade has dragged the Grove Street Families out of prominence in the years leading up to the game's storyline. This, coupled with internal conflicts that see the deaths of OGs such as Tony, Big Devil, and Little Devil,[15] has led to the sorry state of the GSF upon CJ's return from Liberty City in 1992.

There are at least two other distinct sets of the Families: the Temple Drive Families and the Seville Boulevard Families, both of which were originally one with the Grove Street Families, but split up from the GSF during the five years of Carl's absence. The sets are not on good terms with each other, which is why the gang has weakened. Carl will occasionally make reference to Orange Grove Families. Also, gang graffiti with the initials "OGF" exists in game. This was the gang's original name, though Rockstar changed the name before the release of San Andreas. Minor references to this remain in the game.[citation needed]

The rivalry between the sets mainly had to do with Grove Street's opposition to drug dealing, but later, the Families are united into one gang. Grove Street member Carl Johnson is involved in a brief conflict with the Seville Boulevard Families, who are trying to pin Sweet while he is visiting his girlfriend in Seville.[16] Following this incident, Carl and Sweet Johnson called for an end to "green on green" conflicts, an end to drugs on the street, and the reunion of GSF's faction.[17]

While Carl's return helps revive the GSF to an extent, Ryder and Smoke's betrayal of the gang, coupled with an ambush on Sweet and other high-ranking members by the rival Ballas gang and the police, destroysmuch of the gang's influence in the city. Consequently, the Ballas and Los Santos Vagos seize all of GSF's turf in Los Santos. Sweet is imprisoned, and Carl is forced to continue working for CRASH, consisting of a corrupted group of police officers. Sweet's release from prison later, courtesy of Mike Toreno, allows the gang to rise again (now headed by Carl and Sweet Johnson) and regain most of their lost turf from the Ballas and Vagos. Depending on the player's actions, it it is possible to take some or all of the Ballas' and Vagos' turf for the GSF.

[edit] Ballas

Members of the Ballas.
Members of the Ballas.

The Ballas, represented in purple gang colors, are the GSF's primary enemy, having been around since the 1970s.[citation needed] They are involved in drug dealing, gang banging, prostitution, arms dealing, vandalism, degeneracy, but mainly, the cocaine trade.[citation needed] The Ballas are rivals with the GSF and the Aztecas, and have had ties with the Los Santos Vagos, the San Fierro Rifa, and the Loco Syndicate for narcotics, and the Russian Mafia for weapons. The Ballas have also collaborated with CRASH. In addition, Big Smoke defects against the GSF to lead the Ballas with his lieutenant Ryder. Unlike the GSF, the Ballas have no reservations about making money by selling drugs; the spread of crack cocaine into the GSF's community is part of their stategy to wipe the GSF out.[citation needed] The Ballas are one of the single most dangerous gangs in all of San Andreas, mostly due to their range being so widespread.

The Ballas briefly controlled the streets of Los Santos alongside the Vagos after Grove Street leader Sweet Johnson is gunned down and arrested. They control the influence of the GSF by using crack cocaine to turn GSF members into hopeless addicts totally dependent on them. Following the release of Sweet from prison and the return of Carl Johnson, the Grove Street Families dominate over the Ballas. The Ballas' Crack Palace is destroyed by Carl Johnson and Ballas influence in Los Santos diminishes.

There are four known sets of Ballas: The Willowfeild Projects Ballas[citation needed], the Front Yard Ballas, the Rollin' Heights Ballas, the Kilo Trays, and the Temple Drive Ballas. It is assumed that the Front Yard Ballas control the turf in central Los Santos; the Rollin' Heights Ballas controlling the outer areas; the Kilo Trays controlling more secluded areas and the Temple Drive Ballas controlling the areas around Temple Drive.

[edit] East Asian gangs

[edit] Triad (Liberty City-based)

Members of the Liberty City-based Triads, GTA III.
Members of the Liberty City-based Triads, GTA III.
  • Appearances: GTA III, GTA:LCS.
  • Presense: Liberty City
  • Status: Active, circa 2001.

Liberty City's Triad (simply referred in-game and related materials as the Triads) is a gang made up of East Asians, based in Chinatown, which is located in the Portland Island of Liberty City. Though the Triad appears to be a petty street gang, it is evident that they are beginning to dabble in organized crime; including extortion, most notably that of Mr. Wong's Laundrette, which had been the source of several problems for the Leone family,[18] [19] [20] as well as pushing drugs for the Colombian Cartel via "Chunky" Lee Chong.[21] They also own the Turtle's Head Fish Factory in Callahan Point, Portland. They become the initial enemy of Claude, as he inevitably opposes the gang for the Leone family. An all-out war between the Triad and the Leones erupts as the Triad attempts to muscle in on Leone businesses in Chinatown. The war concluded after three of the Triad warlords are assassinated[22] and their fish factory is destroyed by a Mafia truck bomb[23] (interestingly enough, the warehouse used to belong to the Leones until the Triad blew it up in Liberty City Stories).[24]

[edit] Triads (San Fierro-based)

Members of the Mountain Cloud Boys, a faction of three San Fierro-based Triads.
Members of the Mountain Cloud Boys, a faction of three San Fierro-based Triads.

The San Fierro-based Triads consist of a collection of Chinatown, San Fierro-based Triad factions originating from Hong Kong that have since moved to the United States. There are three Triad factions in San Fierro, consisting of a set hierarchy with small sets answering to larger sets; the Blood Feather Triad, which would later be slaughtered by the Da Nang Boys, the Red Gecko Tong led by Ran Fa Li, and the Mountain Cloud Boys, the most prominent gang in the group, operated by the blind Wu Zi Mu and answers to the Red Gecko Tong.

The sets of the Triads are heavily involved in joint operations and avoid conflict between the Triad factions, with the Mountain Cloud Boys establishing an alliance with the Red Gecko Tong. The Triads are also allied with the Grove Street Families, and are rivals with the Leone, Sindacco and Forelli families, the Da Nang Boys, and the Loco Syndicate.

In addition to their bases of operations in San Fierro, the Triads also own and operate a casino hotel venture called The Four Dragons on the Las Venturas Strip; ownership shared between Wu Xi Mu, Ran Fa Li and Carl "CJ" Johnson. Because of intense Mafia pressure in the city, the Chinese Triads attempt to flex their muscles to show the Mafia that they can hold their own on The Strip, even engaging in a robbery of Caligula's Casino, the Mafia's casino. While the Triad's prime business is gambling, Woozie has shown motivations towards robbery[citation needed] and street racing.[citation needed]

Carl Johnson, having been exiled from Los Santos after the fall of the Grove Street Families, works for Wu Zi Mu's gang and helps them to drive out the Loco Syndicate and neutralize the Da Nang Boys (the Triads, on the other hand, seem to be on neutral relations with San Fierro's other gang, the Rifa). In return the Triads aid Carl in robbing Caligula's Casino, give him a share in The Four Dragons Casino, and help him in seizing Madd Dogg's mansion back from a drug dealer so the Grove Street Families could spearhead their return. The mansion would serve as CJ's own base of operation in his return to Los Santos.

[edit] Triad (Vice City-based)

  • Appearance: GTA:VC.
  • Presense: Vice City.
  • Status: Active, circa 1986.

The Vice City-based Triad is a gang that appears and are mentioned only briefly in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. They are only known to have been involved in counterfeiting business, supplying printing plates of money to an unspecified Florida-based counterfeiting syndicate. They are prominently involved in one mission where Tommy Vercetti is assigned to break into a shipping container and extract information from the boss of the gang on the location of a printing plate shipment. The gang is also known to run a shipping company at Viceport, Vice City's harbor, where this gang is operating from a ship. The Streetwanabes are said to have connections with the Triad.[citation needed]

[edit] Yakuza (Liberty City-based)

Members of the Liberty City-based Yakuza, GTA III.
Members of the Liberty City-based Yakuza, GTA III.
  • Appearance: GTA III, GTAA, GTA:LCS.
  • Presense: Liberty City.
  • Status: Active, circa 2001.

The Yakuza organization based and operating in Liberty City is a criminal organization primarily engaged in gambling, assumed to have been around since the 1970s, headed by siblings Asuka Kasen and Kenji Kasen.[25]

Initially, Claude is invited by the Yakuza to work for them. However, while working for Donald Love, Claude frames the Colombian Cartel for the assassination of Kenji, resulting in a war between the Yakuza and the Cartel.[26] Angered by the death of her brother, Asuka vows to "hunt down" the Colombian Cartel with the help of Claude, while capturing and torturing Cartel member Miguel for information.[27] In the process, the Yakuza also take Fort Staunton, a Cartel turf. Later, Asuka is killed by Cartel members, although Fort Staunton remains in the control of the Yakuza. The successor to the Yakuza's leadership remains in doubt. The Yakuza is the only significant gang that aids Claude throughout its appearance in Grand Theft Auto III.

In Liberty City Stories, the Yakuza are led by Kazuki Kasen, Kenji's older brother. While not a major power in Liberty City yet, they are stocking up on weapons (including a tank) and are prepared to claim a large portion of the city as their turf. Their efforts are thwarted by Toni Cipriani with the help of Kazuki's angry wife, Toshiko. Kazuki is killed in a sword fight with Toni, while Kazuki, upset by Kazuki's death in the end, commits suicide.

[edit] Da Nang Boys

Members of the Da Nang Boys.
Members of the Da Nang Boys.

The Da Nang Boys (named after the Vietnam region and city of Da Nang) is a Vietnamese criminal organization based in San Fierro, preparing a full move to the United States.[citation needed] Extremely violent, with major interests in protection, narcotics and human trafficking,[citation needed] they control the dockland/bay area in Easter Basin and possibly a freight ship anchored out in San Fierro bay, often causing disturbance. The Da Nang Boys are also at war with local Triad gangs and were responsible for the massacre of the Blood Feather Triad. The Triads respond with an aerial massacre on one of the Da Nang Boy's freight ships, resulting in the deaths of many members and their leader, the Snakehead.[citation needed]

While the Da Nang Boys is portrayed as a major Vietnamese gang in the city, two other sects, the Shining Razors and the Butterfly Children, are mentioned and are said to be active in Easter Basin.[citation needed]

[edit] Hispanic gangs

[edit] Colombian Cartel

Members of the Colombian Cartel, GTA III
Members of the Colombian Cartel, GTA III
  • Appearances: GTA III, GTAA and GTA:LCS.
  • Presense: Liberty City.
  • Status: Active, circa 2001.

The Colombian Cartel (also known as the Cartel in Grand Theft Auto Advance) is a Hispanic and shadowy organization, and the main group of antagonists in GTA III. They are exceptionally well armed, and are led by Catalina and Miguel to produce and supply the drug SPANK in Liberty City. It is suggested by Liberty City police records that the Colombian Cartel may be using local airport and harbor freight as a front to smuggle the SPANK drug into Liberty City, although they have yet to thoroughly prove this. While listening to the DJ on Rise FM in Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories he mentions having tried a new drug on the street called "SPANK". This means that SPANK is at least in production in 1998.

The Cartel is also linked to Panlantic Construction, a company serving as both a legitimate construction company and a front for illegal operations.[28] In Liberty City Stories, Cartel members are hired by Panlantic as bodyguards for Avery Carrington, who is working for Panlantic and arrives in Liberty City to acquire real estate for development. After Avery is killed by Toni Cipriani, Donald Love takes over negotiations with Panlantic to seal the deal on developing Fort Staunton, which would be later destroyed by bombs planted by Cipriani. In GTA III, the construction site in Fort Staunton would serve as turf for the Cartel before it is seized by the Yakuza.

After Claude's feud with Liberty City's Triad ceases in GTA III, he faces the Cartel as a new and worse enemy for the rest of the game. Ironically, the Cartel is unintentionally responsible for freeing Claude and associate 8-Ball from police custody early in the game, as they kidnap an arrested acquaintance of Donald Love for ransom.

Miguel is leads the gang during this period; Catalina did not join the cartel until 2001, when she shot her boyfriend Claude and took off with money the pair had just robbed from a bank. There are hints during various cutscenes in GTA III that she and Miguel are lovers and she has used the money from the robbery to heighten her standing in the Cartel.

Miguel is later captured in an incomplete skyscraper in Fort Staunton and accused of assassinating Yakuza leader Kenji Kasen, although he actually had nothing to do with it (real estate mogul Donald Love ordered Claude to make it look like the Cartel's doing to spark a gang war and drive real estate prices down).[27] He is later tied up by Kenji's sister Asuka and tortured non-stop for days on end until he is killed by the Cartel when they kidnap Maria and kill Asuka. Catalina is presumed to assume command of the Cartel herself. After being responsible of killing Asuka and trying to escape in a helicopter, her vehicle is shot down with a rocket-propelled grenade by Claude as revenge for shooting him during the beginning of GTA III.

In Grand Theft Auto Advance, the gang is initially allied to Advance protagonist Mike, but would later turn against him after suspecting Mike of killing then Cartel leader Cisco (which is revealed to have been the work of Vinnie). At one point in Advance, Cisco centered his gang operations at Francis International, Liberty City's airport.

[edit] Diablos

Members of the Diablos, GTA III.
Members of the Diablos, GTA III.
  • Appearances: GTA III, GTA:LCS.
  • Presense: Liberty City.
  • Status: Active, circa 2001.

The Diablos is a small street gang led by El Burro (who has been under observation by police since 1997.[29] The only activities known to be associated with the Diablos are street violence and pornography,[29] although they had also been known to engage in gun battles with Liberty City's Triad. They also appear to be having spats with the Yardies for dissing Queen Lizzy,[30] and with the Yakuza for trying to steal some protection money, both times ending up in the slaughter of a large number of Diablo gang members. The gang's sole turf, Hepburn Heights, was recently seized from the Leones in an unspecified time between 1998 and 2001.

[edit] Diaz's gang

Members of Diaz's gang, Vice City.
Members of Diaz's gang, Vice City.
  • Appearance: GTA:VC, GTA:VCS.
  • Presense: Vice City.
  • Status: Disbanded in 1986.

Drug baron Ricardo Diaz's unnamed drug cartel (mentioned in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City as "Diaz's gang")[31] was a Vice City-based Colombian drug cartel, which erupted into large power circa 1984.

In Vice City Stories, Ricardo, then an aspiring drug baron, was determine to expand his criminal empire to rival the Mendez Cartel. With the help of Victor, Ricardo's cartel eventually becomes the defacto drug cartel in the city following the liquidation of the Mendez Cartel in 1984.

In Vice City, prior to Tommy Vercetti's takeover of Vice City in 1986, the gang is the dominant drug cartel in Vice City, with Ricardo's aggressive interest in staying on top of the drug smuggling business a defining factor. He is seen requesting the theft of the fastest speed boat in the city for smuggling activities, and killing those who attempt to cut into his profits, even though it only comprises a small percentage. In addition, Diaz's gang is believed to have botched Tommy's initial drug deal with the Vance brothers (consisting of Lance and Victor) forcing Tommy to leave behind (and lose) both the money and narcotic merchandise as he fled the scene.

Tommy Vercetti is given the opportunity to work for Ricardo, while Lance Vance infiltrated the gang under a different name. As Tommy continued to work for Ricardo and planned for a takeover of Ricardo's empire, Lance attempts the overthrow prematurely, failing to kill Ricardo and resulting in his capture and torture by the gang, before Tommy rushed to the rescue. This event forces the two to raid Diaz's mansion and kill Ricardo before Ricardo "takes them out", killing many Diaz cartel members on the way. The killing of Ricardo effectively disbands Diaz's cartel as Ricardo's mansion and all of his assets are seized by the Vercettis and there are no longer any Diaz gang members seen anywhere in the Vice City's storyline (apart from in rampages).

[edit] Cuban gang/Los Cabrones

Members of the Cuban Gang, Vice City.
Members of the Cuban Gang, Vice City.
  • Appearances: GTA:VC and GTA:VCS.
  • Presense: Vice City.
  • Status: Active, circa 1986.

The Cubans (as named in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City), also known as Los Cabrones (as named in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories; Rockstar's motive for changing the gang's name is unknown), is a Cuban-American gang led by Umberto Robina.

In Vice City Stories, circa 1984, the gang, dubbed "Los Cabrones", is the sworn enemy of the Cholos, another Hispanic gang based nearby. A gang war erupts between the Los Cabrones and the Cholos, which would see the former emerging as the victor.

In Vice City, two years later, the Cuban gang the perpetual enemies of the Haitian gang. Tommy Vercetti fought in the gang war between these two groups for both sides, but because the Haitian gang tricked Vercetti into working with them, he completely destroyed them and allied himself with the Cuban gang, who remain allied with the very powerful Vercetti Gang. Umberto and Alberto Robina are personally on good terms with Tommy and regard him as Cuban. The Cuban gang are also involved in the cocaine trade.

[edit] Los Santos Vagos

Members of Los Santos Vagos.
Members of Los Santos Vagos.

The Los Santos Vagos is a Mexican gang found to be in league with the Ballas, represented in yellow.

Los Santos Vagos, like the Ballas, pose a threat to Carl Johnson when they see him. The Vagos and the Grove Street Families have intense rivalry but the Vagos biggest rivals of all are their Mexican counterparts, the Varrios Los Aztecas. After Carl and Cesar Vialpando (the Aztecas' Leader) are exiled from Los Santos, the Vagos take away all of the Aztecas's turf, until the return of the Grove Street Families allow Carl and Cesar to regain the territories. They are once known to be rivals of the San Fierro Rifa, but have come into good terms with them due to drug trafficking between them.

Heavily involved in the drug trade, they had a major involvement in Big Smoke's short lived, but once powerful cocaine empire. The Vagos' Leader, Big Poppa, even gained the mansion of rapper Madd Dogg when he was unable to pay off his debt (until Carl and the San Fierro Triads launched an offensive on the mansion, with Carl personally killing Big Poppa). Like those of the Ballas, the Vagos' territories can also be completely conquered by the player, severly weakening the gang's presense in Los Santos.

[edit] Varrios Los Aztecas

Members of the Varrios Los Aztecas.
Members of the Varrios Los Aztecas.

Significantly less prominent than the Los Santos Vagos, the Varrios Los Aztecas is a Mexican gang, led by Cesar Vialpando. They have an uneasy friendship with the Grove Street Families due to Cesar dating and intending to marry Kendl Johnson and his close friendship with Carl Johnson,[citation needed] and due to both gangs having the same enemies, but this is far from solid. Indeed, Varrios will still challenge Carl Johnson if they see him on the streets, calling out insults against the Grove Street Families gang and sometimes attacking with fists or weapons. They will also attack GSF members on sight, and vice versa. The Varrios are rivals with the Vagos and the San Fierro Rifa, and are also believed to be on bad terms with the Ballas.

The Varrios are traditionally anti-narcotics, with heavy involvement in gun running and street violence,[citation needed] and they only have a few territories compared to other gangs, and these are clustered around the south-western areas of Eastern Los Santos. Varrios Los Aztecas is represented in turquoise gang colors.

[edit] San Fierro Rifa

Members of the San Fierro Rifa.
Members of the San Fierro Rifa.

The San Fierro Rifa is the sole Mexican gang based in San Fierro, later seen to be collaborating with the Ballas and Vagos in the narcotics business, and represented in a light blue gang color. The Rifa also appear to work as thugs for the Loco Syndicate, as is Rifa leader T-Bone Mendez, who is a co-leader of the Loco Syndicate. The Rifa also had a dislike towards Mexican gangs in Los Santos,[citation needed] until they joined the narcotics business linked to the Los Santos Vagos. They appear to be rather neutral with the local Chinese Triads and the Vietnamese Da Nang Boys.

Despite the death of their leader, T-Bone Mendez, the gang remains in existence in San Fierro.

[edit] Cholos

  • Appearance: GTA:VCS.
  • Presense: Vice City.
  • Status: Disbanded in 1984.

In Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories, the Cholos - a street gang - are the dominant gang in the Little Havana district of Vice City. They are in conflict on various fronts - Phil Cassidy is fighting them for gun running dominance, while Marty Jay Williams and the Trailer Park Mafia is fighting them for dominance of nearly every other criminal activity.

Their control over Little Havana begins to be threatened in 1984, when Los Cabrones arrives on the scene, sparking a deadly turf war for complete control of the neighborhood. They even attempt to kill the father of the Los Cabrones leader, Alberto Robina, after Umberto (the leader) decides to launch an all out attack on the Cholos. This results in the Cholos defeat. The Cholos are completely wiped out by the time of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City after Los Cabrones, with the help of Victor Vance, win the turf war for Little Havana. The remains of the Cholos eventually merged with Los Cabrones. The gang's turf, Little Havana and Little Haiti, are seized by Los Cabrones and the Haitian gang, respectively, by 1986.

[edit] Mendez Cartel

Members of the Mendez Cartel.
Members of the Mendez Cartel.
  • Appearance: GTA:VCS.
  • Presense: Vice City.
  • Status: Disbanded in 1984.

The Mendez Cartel was a very powerful drug cartel operating out of Vice City in the early 1980s. They arrive in Vice City around the same time as Victor and supply drugs to numerous high ranking officers at Fort Baxter. The Mendez Cartel also owns a mansion on Prawn Island that is eventually taken over by the Streetwannabe's in between 1984 and 1986. It is never disclosed whether they are related to San Fierro Rifa gang leader T-Bone Mendez; it could be coincidence they share a last name. After Victor Vance kills Armando and then Diego Mendez, the cartel is officially disbanded.

[edit] Afro-Caribbean gangs

[edit] Yardies

Members of the Yardies, GTA III.
Members of the Yardies, GTA III.
  • Appearance: GTA III, GTAA, GTA:LCS.
  • Presense: Liberty City.
  • Status: Active, circa 2001.

The Yardies (known in full as the Uptown Yardies[citation needed]) are a Jamaican street gang, led by King Courtney. They are secretly in league with the Colombian Cartel and are known to push SPANK onto Staunton Island. The gang maintains hostilities with the Diablos in GTA III, and had previously engaged in a turf war with a local Mafia family in 1998 to seize Newport, their only patch of territory in GTA III.

Their use of Jamaican English and modern street slang with their heavy Jamaican accents make them relatively difficult to understand on occasions without the use of game subtitles.

[edit] Haitain gang

Members of the Haitian gang.
Members of the Haitian gang.
  • Appearance: GTA:VC.
  • Presense: Vice City.
  • Status: Active, circa 1986.

The Cuban gang's main rivals for control of Little Haiti, a poorer neighborhood in Vice City, is the Haitian gang (simply referred to as Haitians in game), led by Auntie Poulet, circa 1986. The gang, which is indicated to neither exist nor hold any turf in Vice City Stories, is presumed to have only form or arrive in the interval between 1984 and 1986, taking Little Haiti, previously a Cholos turf.

In Vice City, Auntie Poulet gives Tommy Vercetti mind-altering drugs to make him use less-than-honest tactics in their war against the Cuban gang, including the bombing of Cuban boats using a remote controlled plane, and the sniping of Cuban gang members in a fight between the Cuban and Haitian gangs. After a final errand for Poulet, Vercetti is asked to never return to Little Haiti; should he return there, Poulet calls to remind him that he isn't welcome, and he immediately becomes an enemy of the Haitian gang. In return, Vercetti utterly massacres members of the Haitian gang and completely destroys their large drug manufacturing plant (killing many more members in the process), thereby severing all ties with Poulet and her gang.

[edit] White American gangs

[edit] Biker gang

Members of the Biker Gang in Vice City.
Members of the Biker Gang in Vice City.
  • Appearance: GTA:VC, GTA:VCS.
  • Presense: Vice City.
  • Status: Active, circa 1986.

The Biker gang is a a group of Vice City-based stereotypical bikers, which is simply put, "the biggest family of misfits, outcasts and badasses." as quoted by their leader, Big Mitch Baker. Circa 1986, they are the only gang, along with the Cuban gang, that Tommy Vercetti opens relations with, with his powerful Vercetti gang (without forcibly taking it over).

In Vice City Stories the Biker gang are revealed to be a large gang owning several businesses across Vice City. It is assumed that due to Victor Vance's takeovers, the once large gang is reduced to only the Greasy Chopper Bar in the Downtown district by Vice City. Victor Vance also stumbles into a homosexual, racist subsect of the gang, the Stallionz, which is wiped out in the game. The Stallionz are not to be confused as the whole Biker gang itself, for they only own a portion of the territories the Biker gang owns.

[edit] Trailer Park Mafia

Members of the Trailer Park Mafia, as depicted in GTA: Vice City Stories
Members of the Trailer Park Mafia, as depicted in GTA: Vice City Stories
  • Appearance: GTA:VCS.
  • Presense: Vice City.
  • Status: Disbanded in 1984.

The Trailer Park Mafia is the name given to the former redneck gang in Vice City Stories based in a trailer park surrounding the Sunshine Autos Car Showroom, circa 1984. Their influence spanned to Vice City's poorer communities, bringing further suffering to this bracket of the city's population.[32] Their leader, Marty Jay Williams, is murdered by Victor Vance in Vice City Stories after being prevented from kidnapping his own wife, Louise. Victor and his brother Lance then acquired the Mafia's businesses and the gang disbanded.

[edit] Other gangs

[edit] Vance crime family

  • Appearance: GTA:VC, GTA:VCS.
  • Presense: Vice City.
  • Status: Disbanded in 1986.

At the beginning of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, and during Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories, the Vance crime family is a criminal organization made up of only two main members, Victor and Lance Vance, of which Victor is the leader.[33][34]

Victor and Lance grew up poor and try drug trafficking to make a profit to live on and provide medical costs for their ill brother, Pete Vance after Victor is discharged from a local army base. The Vance crime family was known to have seized control of several businesses and assets and became a large scale operation. However, after the events of Vice City Stories, in which Victor and Lance agree to leave Vice City temporarily and "live off" the money they had made, the fate of the Vance crime family is unknown. Lance Vance was killed by Tommy Vercetti in 1986 and Victor was thought to be killed by members of Diaz's gang, so it is almost certain the family was dissolved.

[edit] Russian Mafia

Members of Russian Mafia in Big Smoke's "Crack Palace."
Members of Russian Mafia in Big Smoke's "Crack Palace."
  • Appearance: GTA:SA.
  • Status: Active, circa 1992.

The Russian Mafia only appears in San Andreas for a short time. Though they have no permanent stake in San Andreas, they have claimed the Atrium, a building lobby, as a temporary turf in a mission, and also appear in league with the Ballas, Vagos and Rifas in Big Smoke's "Crack Palace." Their influence is obviously felt considerably more overseas, but after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Russian mobsters flooded into the United States.[35]

[edit] Loco Syndicate

Better classified as a joint business venture between several criminals, the Loco Syndicate was a collective outfit dealing with drugs, primarily cocaine. The Syndicate had its main operations based in San Fierro, and was made up of San Fierro's most powerful pimp Jizzy B, the leader of the San Fierro Rifa T-Bone Mendez and the mysterious businessman (later revealed to be an undercover government agent) Mike Toreno.[36] Former Grove Street Family veteran Big Smoke, who started up a large crack-cocaine empire, would later established a business deal with the Syndicate, sending his number two man, Ryder, as his formal representative to conduct business.[37]

The Loco Syndicate was the largest drug cartel in San Fierro and one of the most powerful in San Andreas, before Carl Johnson killed Ryder, Jizzy B and T-Bone Mendez. When the Loco Syndicate was consequently disbanded, Toreno returned to his usual duties and Big Smoke's narcotics empire ceased transactions with San Fierro.

[edit] Streetwannabes/Sharks

Members of the Streetwannabe's as depicted in GTA:Vice City
Members of the Streetwannabe's as depicted in GTA:Vice City
  • Appearance: GTA:VC, GTA:VCS.
  • Presense: Vice City.
  • Status: Active, circa 1986.

The Streetwannabes (in Vice City) or Sharks (in Vice City Stories) is a gang of thugs that hang out around outside the North Point Mall and in several dilapadated mansions in Prawn Island as of Vice City, but are hardly a threat to any of the other gangs in Vice City. The only highlight of their gang's history is being part of an aerial massacre that resulted in many of them getting killed. It is also suggested that they are involved in arms running.[citation needed] They apparently are on bad terms with Mitch Baker's Biker gang when they steal his prized motorcycle and keep it captive in a motor garage in Downtown.[38] The leader of the gang (name unknown) also betrays Ricardo Diaz by stealing his shipment of drugs and orders the killing of him[39] (and many other members in the aforementioned aerial slaughter).

The Streetwannabes are indefinately known as "Sharks" in Vice City Stories, and are based in Vice Beach, the eastern island in Vice City; they manage a number of companies, which Victor eventually takes over. An interesting note is that, after Victor takes over one of their businesses, the Sharks do not back down in their attacks until all of their businesses have been taken. Often, they chase Victor in their Gang Rancher SUVs, or sometimes destroy his empire sites.

They are listed as the "Streetwannabe's," (with use of the apostrophe, in the Vice City stats), but the Shark logos on the back of their denim jackets, along with graffiti on buildings and their gang cars, has led some to call them the Sharks.

[edit] Notes and references

  1. ^ Leon McAffrey as "LM": "I know you're into all that Mob crap - makes for a good read - everybody's scared of monsters. So, I heard from my man in Italy, there's some real problems going down within the Three Families." (E-mail titled "Interesting" and dated May 1, 1998, official Flash version of Liberty City Stories website.) Retrieved on January 15, 2007.
  2. ^ a b Salvatore Leone: "The mayor wouldn't take a shit without Franco's say so!" / Mayor's assistant: "Nobody owned the mayor!...Aargh! Wait, wait, you're right! It's those Sicilians...they pushed Franco into it." / Salvatore Leone: "The Sicilians? Why?" / Mayor's assistant: "They own Franco and they want a war between the Liberty Families. When the dust settles they're coming to take over." (Cut scene in "Caught in the Act", Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories).
  3. ^ a b c Sonny Forelli: "We been talking about expanding down South, right? Vice City is twenty-four carat gold these days. The Colombians, the Mexicans, hell, even those Cuban refugees are cutting themselves a piece of some nice action." / Unnamed Forelli member: "But it's all drugs, Sonny. None of the families will touch that shit!" / Sonny Forelli: Times are changing. The families can't keep their backs turned while our enemies reap the rewards. So, we send someone down to do the dirty work for us and cut ourselves a nice quiet slice. OK?" (Introduction, first Marcos Bistro cut scene, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City).
  4. ^ Liberty Tree: "SALVATORE LEONE: 'Just a Business Man'". Official Grand Theft Auto III website. Retrieved on July 26, 2006.
  5. ^ Salvatore Leone: "There is my boy." / Joey Leone: "Hi, Pops." / Salvatore Leone: "Have you got yourself a good woman yet? You know your Momma, god bless her soul, would be turning over in her grave, if she ever saw you without a wife." / Joey Leone: "I know, I'm working on it." (Cut scene in "Salvatore's Called a Meeting", Grand Theft Auto III).
  6. ^ a b c Salvatore Leone: "So, Johnny, you want five million dollars of my money?" / Johnny Sindacco: "I want to help you make a fortune, Mr. Leone. My father wants to unite our organizations." (The Introduction)
  7. ^ "Breaking the Bank at Caligula's" mission (Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas)
  8. ^ a b c "Dead Reckoning" mission (Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories)
  9. ^ Salvatore Leone: (On the phone, after a defensive gang war against the Diablos in Hepburn Heights) "Toni! Is it over? How'd it go?" / Toni Cipriani: "It's not good Sal. I saved a few guys, but we'd lost too many before I got here. I think we're gonna lose this part of town." (Cut scene in "Sindacco Sabotage", Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories).
  10. ^ a b Catalina: "Were you followed? You know what goes on here is our little secret, amigo." / Curly Bob: "No...no, I wasn't followed, you got my stuff?" / Catalina: "Here's your Spank squealer. Now talk." / Curly Bob: "Ok, so the Leones are fighting war on two fronts, they are in a turf with the Triads with no sign of either side giving up. Meanwhile Joey Leone has stirred up some bad blood with the Forellies. Every day they're losing men and influence in the city. Salvatore is becoming dangerous and paranoid. He suspects everybody and everything." (Cut scene in "Cutting the Grass", Grand Theft Auto III).
  11. ^ Maria: "Listen, Salvatore thinks that we're going behind his back, so he was offering you to the Cartel in order to make a deal." (Cut scene in "Last Requests", Grand Theft Auto III).
  12. ^ Asuka Kasen: "I can give you work with [the Liberty City Yakuza], but first you must prove to me that your ties with the Mafia are truly broken. Salvatore Leone will be leaving Luigi's in about three hours time. Make sure he doesn't reach his club alive." (Opening cut scene of "Sayonara Salvatore," Grand Theft Auto III).
  13. ^ The official term used is "Vercetti Gang" (also written as the "Vercetti gang" in Vice City stats). The organization is not evidenced to be a Mafia family, as the gang is not proven to be completely run by any Mafia families, any other members of the Vercetti family or Italian members) The term "crime ring" is only used in an official strategy guide for the game.
  14. ^ Delores: "Now hear this. We are now under new management and things are going to change around here again. Our new management, the...Which gang are you?" / Tommy Vercetti: "Well, I'm not part of any gang actually." / Delores: "What's your goddamned name, kid?" / Tommy Vercetti: "Vercetti, Tommy Vercetti." / Delores: "Our new management, the Vercetti Gang, is gonna make sure we get no trouble." (Purchase of Kaufman Cabs cut scene, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City).
  15. ^ Sweet Johnson: "(CJ and Sweet are in a cemetery visiting Beverly Johnson's grave) "This shit's real fucked up. Everything!" / CJ: "What you mean?" / Sweet Johnson: "What, apart from your mother being dead? Things are going real bad. Here, let me show you, running man. Tony's buried over there. Little Devil over there, Big Devil over there. Man, it's just crazy - everybody blasts on fools first then asks questions second."(Cut scene in "Sweet & Kendl", Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas).
  16. ^ Sweet Johnson: (On the phone) "Carl! No time to chit-chat! Been seeing a Seville Families bia. Word got out on the street and the boys don't like it. I'm pinned down in the Seville 'hood, and we need a ride out of here, pronto." (Opening cut scene of "Sweet's Girl", Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas).
  17. ^ Sweet Johnson: "Listen up, fellas, like we were saying. No more base in the streets." / CJ: "Finally." / Sweet Johnson: "Peep this - we're gonna unite the families once more. Because the Ballas have been pumping our guys full of base for too long, while we argue amongst ourselves. So all the Families sets are gonna meet down at the Jefferson Motel. I say it's time we went down there and made it official. Keep that shit off our streets!" (Opening cut scene of "Los Sepulcros", Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas).
  18. ^ "Cipriani's chauffeur" mission (Grand Theft Auto III)
  19. ^ "Taking out the Laundry" mission (Grand Theft Auto III)
  20. ^ "The Pick-up" mission (Grand Theft Auto III)
  21. ^ Joey Leone: "Chunky 'Lee' Chong is pushing SPANK for some new gang from Colorado...or Columbia...or something, who needs details anyway." (Cut scene in "Farewell Chunky 'Lee' Chong", Grand Theft Auto III).
  22. ^ "Triads and Tribulations" mission (Grand Theft Auto III).
  23. ^ "Blow Fish" mission (Grand Theft Auto III).
  24. ^ "The Trouble with Triads" mission (Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories).
  25. ^ Staunton -> Kenji's Casino, official Flash version of GTA III website. Retrieved on January 15, 2006.
  26. ^ Donald Love: "Nothing drives down real-estate prices like a good old fashioned gang war [...] I have noticed the Yakuza and the Colombians are far from friends. Let's capitalize on this opportunity. I want you to kill the Yakuza Waka-gashira, Kenji Kasen. Kenji is attending a meeting at the top of the multi-story carpark [...] Get a Cartel gang car and eliminate him! The Yakuza must blame the Cartel for this declaration of war." (Opening cut scene from "Waka-gashira Wipeout!", Grand Theft Auto III).
  27. ^ a b Asuka Kasen: "But you've done me a favor. You're not the only one that has a score to settle with the Colombians. This worm killed my brother." / Miguel: "I've never killed no Yakuza." / Asuka Kasen: "LIAR! We all saw the Cartel assassin. We're going to hunt down and kill all you Colombian dogs! I'll be operating on our little friend here to extract information and a little pleasure." (Opening cut scene from "Waka-gashira Wipeout!", Grand Theft Auto III).
  28. ^ Staunton -> Pan-lantic Construction, official Flash version of GTA III website. Retrieved on January 15, 2006.
  29. ^ a b Portland -> Hepburn Heights, official Flash version of GTA III website. Retrieved on January 15, 2006.
  30. ^ Yardie member: "We're going for a little ride into Hepburn Heights, whack us some filthy Diablos been dissing Queen Lizzy." (Second opening cut scene of "Uzi Rider", Grand Theft Auto III.)
  31. ^ The Grand Theft Auto: Vice City game stat refers Diaz's gang as "Diaz's gang," emphasis on the lower case "gang".
  32. ^ Official Vice City Stories website. Rockstar Games. Retrieved on September 7, 2006.
  33. ^ Vice City Crime Tree, official Flash version of Vice City website. Retrieved on January 15, 2006.
  34. ^ Ken Rosenberg: "Okay, so. They're brothers, okay. One operates the uh, the business, and the other one does the flying." (Introduction, airport cut scene, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City).
  35. ^ "Just Business" mission (Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas).
  36. ^ Opening cut scene of "Jizzy" (Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas).
  37. ^ "Photo Opportunity" mission (Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas).
  38. ^ "Big" Mitch Baker: "A local street gang made the mistake of stealing my hog...probably because of some machismo thing or somethin'." (Opening cut scene of "Hog Tied," Grand Theft Auto: Vice City.)
  39. ^ Ricardo Diaz: "Some Judas has betrayed me. He thinks I don't know how much money I should be making, but stealing 3% is as good as stealing 100%. No one does this to me. NO ONE!! You follow him from his apartment, and you see where he goes! Later, we will kill him." (Opening cut scene of "The Chase," Grand Theft Auto: Vice City.)


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