Anthony Gonzales

## Background

Anthony Gonzales is currently a Trooper for the San Andreas State Troopers. A southern "sweetheart" who does not believe in harshness and the "hard-ass" lifestyle of being a police officer and wants to show kindness to criminals and reforming them through kindness and friendship.

He is also very protective of things he loves and appreciates, mostly his friends, or his favorite hobbies, particularly professional wrestling, who he believes is a national sport and wants for everyone to view it and would let his love of professional wrestling show out whenever he goes on duty.

Because of his harsh past as a police officer, he strives to be the nicest cop within the entire police force, and assuring that kindness is the ultimate weapon against criminals, even if it goes against the "books".

## History

### **Early Life**

Anthony Gonzales was born on July 28th, 1991, in the small county of Cobb in Georgia, to a family of professional wrestlers. His mother and father were both professional wrestlers. His mother is Diana "Lady Liberty" Anderson, a mid-leveled talent that wrestled independently in the 80's, but gained some recognition after competing for the Women's Championship of the National Wrestling's Alliance (NWA) in 1984, for which gained high praise from wrestling critics and Diana was awarded the "Lady to Watch" for the year 1985, although she would never gain proper recognition and focused on being a house wife after giving birth to Anthony, she always cherished her time in the ring. Anthony's father, however, John "The Jackhammer" Gonzales, was the more known, having gain high prominence in the mid 80's as a white hot bodybuilding babyface, some wrestling critics back then called The Jackhammer as the next incarnation of Hulk Hogan. The Jackhammer, despite the silly name, was very popular among kids, and that popularity granted him a small time of fame, for which he wrestled in the NWA against the likes of Lex Luger, Terry Funk, teaming with Sting and at one point, facing off against NWA World Heavyweight Champion, Ric Flair in a non-title contest, for which he won via disqualification. However, what is considered to be John's all-time favorite memory, was in 1991, where he signed a small deal with the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) and became the first opponent of the legendary wrestler, The Undertaker, though it was only a 4 minute contest and he did not put any offense at all against him, The Jackhammer called it the best moment of his life, and even has a picture of himself with The Undertaker.

Gonzales also has a sister, who did not follow the steps of her parents and become a wrestler, she was instead big into Stock Car racing, mainly NASCAR, and originally pursued the idea of wanting to be a NASCAR driver, but after seeing her brother go into law enforcement, she wanted to follow into her brother's footsteps and also became a law enforcement officer.

#### **Professional Wrestler**

Even at a young age, young Anthony was trained to follow onto his parents footsteps, although his parents were going to be supportive of anything Anthony aspired to be and wanted, but because of wanting to continue the family tradition, he began training to be in the ring by the age of 7, and fully taking bumps when he was 10, he was trained by his father at that time before fully taking his training in 2002, where he trained with various esteemed wrestlers for 3 years, before making his official in-ring debut in 2006, under the ring name "Swiper" Gonzales. He considered the name Swiper after watching Dora the Explorer with his cousins and the fact that he wore a blue headband, orange singlet, orange tights and blue boots. The soon-to-be police officer wowed crowds across the States and the world for about 5 years, before an injury in his foot forced him onto early retirement.

### **Career as a Police Officer**

After taking a semi-retirement from professional wrestling in 2011, then 20 year old Anthony Gonzales needed something to do in his life, he was living back in Cobb County, helping his father train wrestlers while finishing high school. It is somewhere around this time where Gonzales would sink into his life altering decision. One night, a robber broke into the Gonzales household, fortunately, young Anthony was training for a return to the ring and noticed the robber sneaking through the house, it's there that Anthony wrestled and completely overwhelmed the masked robber, even finding a pair of handcuffs that his father owned (do not ask why) and performed a citizens arrest on the robber. There, young Anthony would proceed to speak to the robber while waiting for police. It was that night that the police who was amazed by how easily Anthony overwhelmed the man and even got him to confess into multiple crimes, he was recommended that he take up a job in the police academy in Georgia. Anthony was surprised by this sudden boost in confidence by the local law enforcement, as he never once thought that he could even come close to being a police officer.

#### **Liberty City Police Department**

After that day, Gonzales took an online course in criminology and was even close to applying to be a Cadet in Georgia until he saw an ad for the Liberty City Police Department. The LCPD was hiring for cadets and there, a light bulb shined on the young 20 year old. He began training again as if he was returning to the ring, but this time, he was going to become a police officer. His parents were initially skeptical of his decision to make a drastic shift in his life from professional wrestler to law enforcement officer, however, once they saw just how dedicated he was in succeeding, taking an online course, acing virtually every test, learning the language, his parents immediately withdrew any and all skepticism and graciously gave their support for their son to continue on this new path, even if it meant moving to an entirely different state.

Gonzales moved from Georgia to New York City in 2012 to seek employment in the Liberty City Police Department. There, he would become one of the more impressive Cadets in his class, going as far as getting an almost perfect assessment score in his evaluation, acing his entire probationary officer program in about a week, and becoming a fully fledged Police Officer of the LCPD in around 3 weeks, which at that time, was almost unheard of. His colleagues were easily impressed by his confidence & charisma, almost always being allowed to take charge at a scene because of his commanding tone of speaking.

#### LCPD Major Crimes

He was also lauded for his reputation as an interrogator, his commanding, theater like voice allowed him to command fear and intimidation of criminals, almost catching criminals off-guard with his interrogation process, because of this solid reputation, in 2014, after 2 years of working in the Police Department, he was transferred over to **Major Crimes** where he quickly became a Senior Detective, eventually promoted to Lead Detective, his skills as an interrogator was a big factor in his promotions, as all criminals would confess due to the overwhelming power in the voice of Gonzales. His success in the Department gave him alot of confidence, even landing him a girlfriend from the Bronx. After being promoted to Lead Detective, he was given the case that completely changed his life, a case involving a notorious street gang selling countless amounts of drugs to children in downtown Queens. This was considered a "major case" by the Liberty City Chief of Police that the Chief himself told Gonzales that if he was able to close this case, he would personally guarantee him a promotion to high command, a goal that Gonzales wanted since the day he became an officer, as Gonzales saw that the LCPD became very complacent and virtually nobody was taking their job seriously. Especially Major Crimes, as the Chief of Police saw Major Crimes as an afterthought and did not provide virtually any help to Gonzales or the department itself. Gonzales was eventually the only Detective who worked on the case, and because of Gonzales's obsession with becoming High Command, he would then make what he considers to be the biggest regret and the biggest mistake of his life. The case was his only focus, he would then shut himself out of the outside world, working virtually day & night within the PD, even going as far as making his office in the PD his literal HOME. His obsession with his work and promotion forced him to cease contact with his parents, his small group of friends he met in Liberty City, even going as far as breaking up with his girlfriend because "the work outweighed the relationship", according to Gonzales.

For almost 2 years, he spent virtually everyday in the Police Department and within Liberty City, patrolling, scouting, report making, about every single detail about the case, until, in late 2016, the leader of the gang that was selling these drugs was unexpectedly gunned down by his own gang for screwing them over profits of drugs. This meant that no one was able to answer for any of the crimes, and that all the work that Gonzales put in was...for nothing. He did not receive his promotion, his work was almost entirely forgotten and scrapped, and he almost, became an afterthought in the Police Department, so, he did the only thing he could have done, resigned from the Liberty City Police Department

#### **Sheriff's Office of Cobb County**

Moving back to his hometown of Cobb County, Georgia, completely disenchanted and disgusted by the city life and how much of his life it consumed, he used a small amount of time making amends with his family, who was easily forgiving & understanding because of how hard working he was. Gonzales spent a little bit of time between 2016 & 2017 training wrestlers with his father, before being recommended for a job once again by the Sheriff's Office of Cobb County at the request of his uncle, who was at that time, the Undersheriff of Cobb County, it was at this time that Gonzales almost gave up being a police officer in general because of how much he disliked his time back in Liberty City, until he spent the next week with his uncle, seeing him work for the Sheriff's Office, and noticing the vast difference in working in the County as opposed to working in the big city. This is also around this time where Gonzales did not care about proper looks of a police officer, and wanted to stand out compared to his other officers, he grew his hair out and grew a complete beard, before shaving it to match more of one of his favorite wrestler's, Triple H.

After being hired by the Sheriff's Office, and due to the small amount of crime that actually happened in Cobb County, the crimes that does happen, Gonzales would virtually stop all of it, and because of again, his commanding voice (of which he toned down and began changing his policing style to be more friendly and respectful, as opposed to the usual "hard-assness" of city cops), he was vastly promoted to Captain of the Sheriff's Office, where he became the most respected officer in the Sheriff's Office. His performance and friendly attitude with the citizens and fellow officers became so apparent that he was even being nominated by the entirety of the Sheriff's Office to run for Sheriff of Cobb County. Although flattered, Gonzales did not feel confident in his ability to be in High Command, and eventually settled for being Captain of the Sheriff's Office, until resigning in 2018 due to burn out. After this, he would say goodbye to his family & friends once more, wanting to explore the country and see the sights, in his words. "Finding peace", before thinking about returning to law enforcement. He would spend the next year and a half traveling the entirety of the United States, doing independent wrestling work and training of wrestlers across the country, before eventually landing himself, in Los Santos.

## **Relationships**

### **Police Department**

**Kiera Alcanthea -** Current Sergeant of the LSPD, and the love interest of Anthony Gonzales. He met her after she saved himself & Lt. Leslie Manley from a crash during a chase of Granny Smathers. He was instantly infatuated by her kind nature and motherly love, something he himself wanted to practice when becoming a police officer in Los Santos. He was furthermore interested in getting closer to Alcanthea by how easily they bonded over things occurring within the PD, their natural way of bantering with one another as well as other police officers. He eventually asked her out on a date after an "interesting" encounter in the Vanilla Unicorn, for which she is an employee there. She eventually caved and the 2 went out on a date, which started from Burger Shot and into the pier near Paleto Bay. It is there that Alcanthea was taken back by the charisma possessed by Gonzales, constant complements, reassurance of her abilities as an officer and as a person, which almost always flusters her. Gonzales credits her & Joseph Valentine for reigniting the work ethic within him as a Police Officer, furthermore igniting his feelings for his superior officer.

Their relationship is constantly met with them teasing one another, consistently complementing one another, and being very platonic with each other, after their first date, Gonzales gave Alcanthea one of his cowboy hats as a gift and a thank you for a great night. The 2 would become closer and Gonzales has heavily been infatuated by Alcanthea's presence and quickly possessed feelings for his Sergeant. He would virtually share everything with her, for she is one of the very few people he 100% trusts. Though Gonzales already expressed his feelings towards her, and initially thinking she returned them, he is not sure if she will ever truly return the feelings for him, but Gonzales pretty much doesn't care, and will continue to stay by her side, whether as a love interest, or simply, his closest friend within the PD.