Gangs

This list provides documentation of all gangs and criminal organizations within the community. This includes pre-existing and completely original organizations. Not all gangs that exist within the GTA universe will be listed, as the main focus is to document the ones that have a strong presence in the community and its story arcs.

## List

### **The Azimuth Alliance**

The **Azimuth Alliance** is an alliance of smugglers from across the world who have come to together to form one of the strongest and most efficient smuggling rings that spans across the world. Founded by Alastor Azimuth Botkin in 2014, the alliance was brought together out of Alastor's desire to strengthen the smuggler community by creating a network of smuggling rings that spans across the globe. It is notorious for being to get anything in or out of nearly any nation on Earth. The alliance also frequently takes on other jobs such as contract killings and thieving.

### **The Lightbringers**

The **Lightbringers** are a criminal organization whose roots date back centuries. With operations across the globe, they specialize in 'professional problem solving' but also dabble in a little bit of everything, from smuggling, to trafficking. The group lurk in the shadows, with no known presence anywhere. For all you know, your next door neighbor is one of them.

### **The Lost Motorcycle Club**

The **Lost Motorcycle Club** is an outlaw motorcycle club active in United States. They operate nationally, as they have chapters on both coasts, as well as the Midwest. They have the strongest presence in Alderney, Liberty City, and Southern San Andreas. They are known for their extreme violence and brutality, which has contributed to deadly rivalries with gangs such as the Angels of Death.

### **Luke Carter's Crew**

The gang known as **Luke Carter's Crew**, never being officially named, was founded in 2004. Luke and his crew started off as a small group of people who would push cars and illegal contraband such as drugs and guns, but would eventually grow into a fairly sizeable amount of people some years later. Luke would recruit his members under the guise that he led a street racing crew, and would eventually corrupt his young prodigies into taking part in his pushing activities. Also very similar to The Overseers when they were in operation, as members are sent to kill usually innocent people for the right price.

### **The Messina Crime Family**

The **Messina Crime Family** is an Irish-Italian Mafia syndicate based in Algonquin and Dukes, Liberty City. They are the third most powerful family in the Commission. Their most notable businesses being union labor, construction, and prostitution, however they also deal various contraband throughout the city smuggled in by the Jaoming Family, a Triad syndicate.

### **The Overseers**

The **Overseers** is a private organization originally founded to deliver vigilante justice by "taking out societal waste when the system fails to do so," but after an abrupt change of leadership, they strayed from their original purpose as they became contract killers for the powerful and wealthy. As an international entity, they are particularly active in countries such as the United States, England, France, Australia, and Japan.