The Eighteenth Street gang was founded by Mexican American street gang members in the Glen Park area of East Los Santos in the mid to late 1960s. These Mexican American street gang members identified as Chicanos and were disaffected members of a local Sureño street gang, the Clanton Fourteen. These disaffected members of the Eighteenth Street gang left Clanton Fourteen when the latter refused to allow Latin American immigrants into their street gang in favor of keeping with Mexican Americans and the Chicano subculture. These events led to the formation of the Eighteenth Street gang and the longstanding rivalry with Clanton Fourteen that still exists today.
The creation of the Eighteenth Street gang was not accepted by other Sureño street gang sets or Maravilla street gang sets within Glen Park, Jefferson 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 Eighteenth Street gang one of the first large multiracial and multiethnic street gangs in all of Los Santos.
Come the mid 1970s, the Eighteenth 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 the Las Colinas Valley, South Central Los Santos and Western Los Santos was officially noted by the police.
The Eighteenth Street gang saw an 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 Glen Park, Jefferson, East Los Santos, the Las Colinas Valley, South Central Los Santos and Western 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 Eighteenth Street 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 Eighteenth Street gang and the Mara Salvatrucha attain their high level of notoriety for barbarism that they have today.
The connection between the Eighteenth Street gang in the United States, Mexico and Central America has been greatly severed since the 1980s and 1990s. The Eighteenth Street gang in the United States, Mexico and Central America operate under different central leaderships and are all culturally different from each other.
As of 2017, the Eighteenth 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 San Andreas, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Florida, West Virginia and Washington D.C. It has a more covert and organized presence in Illinois, New York, New Jersey 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.
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, Trinitarios, Ñetas and the Zoe Pound gang. The Eighteenth Street gang is known for infighting outside of Los Santos and outside of the Southern San Andreas counties of Los Santos County, Whetstone County and Flint 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 Eighteenth Street gang members are incarcerated in state and or federal prisons that have a presence of the Mexican Mafia (eMe). Eighteenth 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 Eighteenth Street gang members to assist in their criminal activities in the streets as well as in state and federal prisons whenever they see fit.
The Eighteenth Street gang in the United States have connections to organized crime groups operating within the country such as the Italian American mafia, the Irish American mob, outlaw biker gangs and immigrant criminals such as those belonging to Latin American, Caribbean, African, Middle Eastern, Asian and Eastern European organized crime groups. On the west coast and east coast of the United States, it maintains connections with organized crime groups operating within multiple European Union countries, the former Yugoslavia, the former Eastern Bloc and the former Soviet Union.
18th Street Clifton Avenue Locos
The Clifton Avenue Locos (18CLS) are a small tightly knit clique of the 18th Street gang that operates in Willowfield, South Central Los Santos. The Clifton Locos were formed by Immigrants from Mexico and Central America in the late 1990s. Throughout much of the 1990s they co-operated with other local 18th Street cliques such as the Hyatt Park Locos and the Willowfield Gangsters. The latter being the oldest 18th Street clique in Willowfield.
The clique is currently headed by Mexican-Americans and Salvadoran-Americans who are in their mid to late 20's. Younger affiliates to the street gang range from 12 to 21 years of age.
The Clifton Locos actively recruit members from the nearby Gregory Mccaine Highschool
The gang's rivals consist of the Mara Salvatrucha Tiny Winos, the South Central Crazy Vatos 13, the 46 Mafia Crips and the Rollin Thirties Crips. The gang has very few allies in and around Willowfield, if any at all.
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((Out of Character Information))
We aim to portray a realistic 18th street gang living in Los Santos, it is preferred that you learn about the gang prior to role-playing with us, however our slangs and other relevant information can be learnt IC'ly. We also aim for character development, none of this become a gangsta in one day form of RP. You must have a good understanding of the english language, just being able to word a sentence properly is good enough.
Once you begin to RP with the gang, you must send me a private message stating that
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