Post by tizzy on Jun 17, 2021 19:44:38 GMT -5
La Eme (Mexican Mafia)
HISPANIC STREET GANG & PRISON GANG
The Mexican Mafia, oftenly known as La Eme, is at the top of a Hispanic organized crime that includes both prison and street gangs in Los Santos. According to most accounts, La Eme was formed in 1957 by Ramon ”Pecko" Mosquera in Los Santos. At the time, Mosquera was in jail at the Twin Towers Correctional Facility (TTCF) in Los Santos. Mosquera and another founding member created La Eme as "superior overlords" and to protect Hispanics from other gangs within the Los Santos prison system. La Eme quickly grew in size and strength. In the 1960s, the Los Santos Department of Corrections moved Eme members to other prisons such as high Desert, in an effort to break up the gang activity at TTCF. This effort served to spread La Eme's influence into other prisons instead of limiting it to TTCF. Instead of breaking the group up, La Eme expanded, the group saw the possibility of making money and gaining power from drug sales, gambling and theft by threatening rackets inside prisons, so leaders placed taxes on these activities, forcing Southern Hispanic inmates to hand over a small percentage of money made from goods to the gang. In the 1980s, La Eme took this approach to the street. By joining forces with East Los Santos street gang leaders, La Eme began to control activities like drugs, theft, contract killings, and collection from inside prison walls.
Los Santos has always been the 'crown jewel' of La Eme and it's street operations with the organization having a stranglehold on much of the city's Hispanic street gangs. This is a list that has grown to include some of the largest gangs in the whole state. Criminal operations within the city have mostly been coordinated through a tight-knit core of seasoned 'Camaradas' that collects taxes and enforces its sudden ideas throughout Los Santos. Latestly at the top of this structure was well-known/obvious gangland figure Enrique 'Dusty' Jiminez whose reputation for clever and extreme animal-like violence earned him huge respect within the Mexican Mafia. Dusty, throughout a two year period, worked almost unchallenged to step up in the leadership and establish a huge illegal business that earned millions from drug distribution alone. This brief empire was brought to an unfortunate end with a huge city-wide police operation dubbed "Open Box" that saw La Eme's street presence disappear overnight with a series of accusations of a crime. Law Enforcement guessed that with the fall of Blajos' organization a serious power vacuum has formed between the survivors as well as a newer generation that looks for their place in the limelight and who are more and more dishonest with how they reach it.
Eme was not just an ordinary prison begang', their long, flexible arms of influence were reaching out to nearly all of the southern gangs. Most of their associates were stuck in between bars, and the ways of communication were very complicated, many of the La Eme mafiosos used to learn many languages, including Nahuatl - the language of the Aztecs, and different forms of unplanned sign language are also used. Quotation from an external source of information - "We all study American Sign Language in Eme," explained Boxer. "Most understand some form of sign language. There are signs for money, drugs, death, hit, and so forth." Sign language is used to avoid being recorded by correctional officers monitoring visits. Notes are another frequently used method of passing secret information to a visitor. The message is secreted in a body cavity to avoid detection, removed during the visit, and held up against the Plexiglas window for the visitor to read. “It’s impossible to stop,” claimed Enriquez. “In that visiting room every weekend there are crew instructions going out, hits are being ordered, hiding illegally-gotten money is discussed, money-based crime. Any crime you can imagine is being planned in that visiting room on a regular basis." U.S. mail is extremely important to communication for those locked up at Pelican Bay. "We can correspond with anyone," insisted Boxer, "and conduct mob business. One method is a joke referred to as 'Project X.' We understand mail to Eme members is often flagged for special use by an institutional gang investigator. To avoid this, we write out a letter and hand it off to another inmate in our pod, let's say a Mafia business partner named Jumper Flores. He copies the exact letter in his own hand, signs his name, and sends it to the person I'm trying to reach out on the street. The receiver by prearrangement knows that the letter is really coming from Boxer Enriquez. The receiver answers the letter, sends it back to Jumper, and Jumper hands it back to me at Pelican Bay. The prison staff never sees it, not knowing the communication is really between me and some other mobster. The mail system is one of the best things in the world for the Mexican Mafia."
The Sureno car refers to the group within which all inmates connected to a Sureno gang and others live, talk with people, exercise and conduct criminal activity. In city-based Los Santos county jails, this car is more simply referred to as the 'Mexican car', as all Hispanic inmates are carefully considered to be part of it. Most of its members are in fact active members or associates of Sureno gangs, though the racial nature of southern Los Santos custodial commands that any non-connected Hispanic inmates are carefully figured Southerners for the length of time of their jailing. The Mexican car is ruled-over by and the subject to the authority of the Mexican Mafia prison gang. County facilities in the Los Santos area are carefully considered strongholds for this organization, as they are the closest facilities to most members'. Members this way often actively look for housing in county facilities by requesting to be called as witnesses in other inmates' trials and by other means, meaning there are usually a handful of 'carnales' in the county system at any one time. These Mexican Mafia members are believed to be "holding the keys" over their jail: forcing taxation, managing and doing 'business', settling arguments and setting rules for all Mexican inmates. Sexuales employ a command structure of subordinate Sureno inmates scattered across pods, floors and buildings around the jail to collect profit and maintain authority. These assistants may in turn (assign to a position) assistants of their own, creating a chain of command stretching directly from the Mexican Mafia itself to the most simple Hispanic inmate.
The Mexican car is loosely connected to the White car because of the Mexican Mafia's prison-based friendly partnership with the white, non-Jewish close emotional bond between the gangs. This friendly partnership is very weak and thin in jails, as the very high turnover of inmates through the system prevents long-term personal relationships from being formed between White and Mexican inmates. The 'alliance' usually only results in business dealings between the two races and does not often extend to riots and arguments with other groups as it does in state prison. At most, Mexican inmates may help white inmates who have proven to be personally 'solid'. Back and forth between people help is not promised that something will definitely happen or that something will definitely work as described by race alone. The Mexican and White cars both argue most often with Black inmates, as is the case in prison, though in poorly run facilities with limited Mexican Mafia influence, gangbanging may happen between rival Sureno gangs. The Mexican car is often deeply involved in custodial crimes such as theft and drug dealing, especially when being directed by a member of the Mexican Mafia. Crime-related pride and snuggling, especially of drugs and phones, is often planned by inmates through connections to their gangs on the streets. The Mexican car is usually believed to be the most organized, aggressive, and strict within the Los Santos county jail system, because of the lack of presence of Norteno inmates who usually earn this reputation on state yards.
OOC Information & Character Kill Permissions
Hardcore role-play is strictly imposed, limit speaking out of character in game as much as possible unless it has something to do with your current roleplay. We reserve the right to CK characters from any gangs/groups who pay tribute/homage to the Mexican Mafia. Any questions or concerns, feel free to dm tizzy#4712 or bop#4949 via discord.
The Mexican Mafia, oftenly known as La Eme, is at the top of a Hispanic organized crime that includes both prison and street gangs in Los Santos. According to most accounts, La Eme was formed in 1957 by Ramon ”Pecko" Mosquera in Los Santos. At the time, Mosquera was in jail at the Twin Towers Correctional Facility (TTCF) in Los Santos. Mosquera and another founding member created La Eme as "superior overlords" and to protect Hispanics from other gangs within the Los Santos prison system. La Eme quickly grew in size and strength. In the 1960s, the Los Santos Department of Corrections moved Eme members to other prisons such as high Desert, in an effort to break up the gang activity at TTCF. This effort served to spread La Eme's influence into other prisons instead of limiting it to TTCF. Instead of breaking the group up, La Eme expanded, the group saw the possibility of making money and gaining power from drug sales, gambling and theft by threatening rackets inside prisons, so leaders placed taxes on these activities, forcing Southern Hispanic inmates to hand over a small percentage of money made from goods to the gang. In the 1980s, La Eme took this approach to the street. By joining forces with East Los Santos street gang leaders, La Eme began to control activities like drugs, theft, contract killings, and collection from inside prison walls.
Los Santos has always been the 'crown jewel' of La Eme and it's street operations with the organization having a stranglehold on much of the city's Hispanic street gangs. This is a list that has grown to include some of the largest gangs in the whole state. Criminal operations within the city have mostly been coordinated through a tight-knit core of seasoned 'Camaradas' that collects taxes and enforces its sudden ideas throughout Los Santos. Latestly at the top of this structure was well-known/obvious gangland figure Enrique 'Dusty' Jiminez whose reputation for clever and extreme animal-like violence earned him huge respect within the Mexican Mafia. Dusty, throughout a two year period, worked almost unchallenged to step up in the leadership and establish a huge illegal business that earned millions from drug distribution alone. This brief empire was brought to an unfortunate end with a huge city-wide police operation dubbed "Open Box" that saw La Eme's street presence disappear overnight with a series of accusations of a crime. Law Enforcement guessed that with the fall of Blajos' organization a serious power vacuum has formed between the survivors as well as a newer generation that looks for their place in the limelight and who are more and more dishonest with how they reach it.
Eme was not just an ordinary prison begang', their long, flexible arms of influence were reaching out to nearly all of the southern gangs. Most of their associates were stuck in between bars, and the ways of communication were very complicated, many of the La Eme mafiosos used to learn many languages, including Nahuatl - the language of the Aztecs, and different forms of unplanned sign language are also used. Quotation from an external source of information - "We all study American Sign Language in Eme," explained Boxer. "Most understand some form of sign language. There are signs for money, drugs, death, hit, and so forth." Sign language is used to avoid being recorded by correctional officers monitoring visits. Notes are another frequently used method of passing secret information to a visitor. The message is secreted in a body cavity to avoid detection, removed during the visit, and held up against the Plexiglas window for the visitor to read. “It’s impossible to stop,” claimed Enriquez. “In that visiting room every weekend there are crew instructions going out, hits are being ordered, hiding illegally-gotten money is discussed, money-based crime. Any crime you can imagine is being planned in that visiting room on a regular basis." U.S. mail is extremely important to communication for those locked up at Pelican Bay. "We can correspond with anyone," insisted Boxer, "and conduct mob business. One method is a joke referred to as 'Project X.' We understand mail to Eme members is often flagged for special use by an institutional gang investigator. To avoid this, we write out a letter and hand it off to another inmate in our pod, let's say a Mafia business partner named Jumper Flores. He copies the exact letter in his own hand, signs his name, and sends it to the person I'm trying to reach out on the street. The receiver by prearrangement knows that the letter is really coming from Boxer Enriquez. The receiver answers the letter, sends it back to Jumper, and Jumper hands it back to me at Pelican Bay. The prison staff never sees it, not knowing the communication is really between me and some other mobster. The mail system is one of the best things in the world for the Mexican Mafia."
The Sureno car refers to the group within which all inmates connected to a Sureno gang and others live, talk with people, exercise and conduct criminal activity. In city-based Los Santos county jails, this car is more simply referred to as the 'Mexican car', as all Hispanic inmates are carefully considered to be part of it. Most of its members are in fact active members or associates of Sureno gangs, though the racial nature of southern Los Santos custodial commands that any non-connected Hispanic inmates are carefully figured Southerners for the length of time of their jailing. The Mexican car is ruled-over by and the subject to the authority of the Mexican Mafia prison gang. County facilities in the Los Santos area are carefully considered strongholds for this organization, as they are the closest facilities to most members'. Members this way often actively look for housing in county facilities by requesting to be called as witnesses in other inmates' trials and by other means, meaning there are usually a handful of 'carnales' in the county system at any one time. These Mexican Mafia members are believed to be "holding the keys" over their jail: forcing taxation, managing and doing 'business', settling arguments and setting rules for all Mexican inmates. Sexuales employ a command structure of subordinate Sureno inmates scattered across pods, floors and buildings around the jail to collect profit and maintain authority. These assistants may in turn (assign to a position) assistants of their own, creating a chain of command stretching directly from the Mexican Mafia itself to the most simple Hispanic inmate.
The Mexican car is loosely connected to the White car because of the Mexican Mafia's prison-based friendly partnership with the white, non-Jewish close emotional bond between the gangs. This friendly partnership is very weak and thin in jails, as the very high turnover of inmates through the system prevents long-term personal relationships from being formed between White and Mexican inmates. The 'alliance' usually only results in business dealings between the two races and does not often extend to riots and arguments with other groups as it does in state prison. At most, Mexican inmates may help white inmates who have proven to be personally 'solid'. Back and forth between people help is not promised that something will definitely happen or that something will definitely work as described by race alone. The Mexican and White cars both argue most often with Black inmates, as is the case in prison, though in poorly run facilities with limited Mexican Mafia influence, gangbanging may happen between rival Sureno gangs. The Mexican car is often deeply involved in custodial crimes such as theft and drug dealing, especially when being directed by a member of the Mexican Mafia. Crime-related pride and snuggling, especially of drugs and phones, is often planned by inmates through connections to their gangs on the streets. The Mexican car is usually believed to be the most organized, aggressive, and strict within the Los Santos county jail system, because of the lack of presence of Norteno inmates who usually earn this reputation on state yards.
OOC Information & Character Kill Permissions
Hardcore role-play is strictly imposed, limit speaking out of character in game as much as possible unless it has something to do with your current roleplay. We reserve the right to CK characters from any gangs/groups who pay tribute/homage to the Mexican Mafia. Any questions or concerns, feel free to dm tizzy#4712 or bop#4949 via discord.
