Josh McAurthur

## Introduction

**Josh McAurthur** is one of the most known men in the state of San Andreas, despite not even being from the state, nor nation. Former Sheriff, and nearly a Myth. We know most about him because he wrote his own autobiography

## Other Information

Josh McAurthur was the Longest Serving Officer within the Blaine County Sheriffs Office and was one of the most known names in the entire state, serving alongside names such as Jason Adler and Lewis Keith. He is Not of American Nationality.

Despite Being an extreme Patriot towards the United States, and bearing a very American Accent, He is actually Kazakh. He was Born in Zhezqazghan, Kazakhstan, a Central Kazakh City.

He is a avid listener and preferred to act as if he was a lower rank, and climbed the ranks extremely fast

## Biography

Born **Bekzat Abdulayev** in Kazakhstan, Josh was raised in a household barely above being called a Slum, and was eventually moved to the Kazakh Capital after his father was granted a workplace at RON, a foreign Oil Business. when he was 14, his family moved to a level that you could consider Lower Middle Class. Once he turned 16, his family moved to the United States with funding provided by RON Cooperation. He settled in the middle class area of Mirror Park and late enrolled at ULSA obtaining a Degree in Criminal justice and Joining the Los Santos Sheriff's Department Initially as a Deputy and Moved to the Sea Side town of Paleto Bay, and Enrolled as a Deputy in the Blaine County Sheriff's Office. he would go on to serve faithfully.

### The Rise of Josh's Career

During his time as a Deputy, in a morning sometime in 1996 he encountered a hostage situation involving the CEO of LomBank, Despite being a Deputy, the Sergeant in charge listened to him and his ideas helped end the situation by the end of the same day. He was congratulated by the Sheriff at the time, and was granted the rank of Sergeant. He later passed Field Supervisor Training, becoming an official FTO.

The year after in 1997, another similar situation was encountered involving several Deputies being held hostage, the holdout lasted 3 days and left 1 of the 3 Deputies dead without chance of revival. Josh would take Charge in this Situation and lead to 1 of the 2 remaining officers being released. On day 3 of the standoff they ran out of choices and called in a local NOoSE team which shortly ended the standoff without a shot being fired.

### The year 2000

During March of 2000, Josh McAurthur was involved in a massive shootout with several members of the Russian Mafia, leaving 3 dead and an uncounted amount injured, Josh included. After a short time in the hospital he was back on patrol, now carrying the title of Lieutenant. During an odd occasion where Josh was given an assignment within the Los Santos Sheriffs Department, despite being a Blaine County Sheriff. During this odd assignment, he met Jason Adler who at the time was also a Lieutenant, but served under the Los Santos Police Department. They later would often meet up with each other on patrols before Josh's assignment had expired, he then moved back to Sandy Shores.

During a normal patrol, josh was struck by a unmarked van, several individuals exited and approached Josh's Cruiser before knocking him unconscious and abducting him. A massive investigation was launched and Josh was later found in a warehouse belonging to the Russian Mafia, other than a concussion, Josh was perfectly fine and gave descriptions of the kidnappers, No Arrests have yet been made.

### The 2001 Terror

During September 11, 2001, a terrorist attack was launched against the united states and many "Non-American" things were beginning to be hated. Despite Central Asia, and Kazakhstan not having any relation to the middle east, many made racist assumptions. Due to this, **Bekzat Abdulayev** had his name Legally changed to **Josh McAurthur**.

Later on in 2001, a suspected terrorist safe house was located and a joint FBI-BCSO Operation was conducted and resulted in over 10 arrests of confirmed terrorists, and due to Josh leading the BCSO side of the operation he was granted the honor of Captain within the Blaine County Sheriffs Office. With his new title, his work moved from the field to the office, but he still had several notable events during his little time in the field.

### The title of Captain

During Josh's time as Captain (2001-2004), he served as a Primarily Training Officer, and during one non-course training, he and the trainee deputy were forced to respond to a robbery in progress. Once arriving on scene, he found the suspect was a timid, first time criminal. He negotiated the surrender of the suspect, and after when he had to file the report, he gave credit to the Deputy Trainee.

With the title of Captain, came the fame of having such a high rank, some of which was bad. Josh McAurthur had been filing reports after a recent gang related incident and was then approached by men in leather jackets who talked to him and after being asked his name, Josh McAurthur told them his name and title. after identifying himself, the men proceeded to stab him 2 times in the abdomen and ran away, but were later apprehended after the Dashcam of Josh's Cruiser having seen the faces of the suspects involved. Josh was Rushed to the hospital where the Doctors found the stabbing had missed vital organs and arteries.

### Promoted again

During the early morning sometime during 2007, Josh McAurthur had been walking around at ceremony with the Sheriff when a man approached the two officers and fired 3 shots into the chest of the Sheriff. Thinking quickly, Josh Pulled out his Service weapons and fired an entire magazine of 12 rounds in the direction of the fleeing assassin, 5 of which struck the suspect who collapsed shortly after. Both the Sheriff and the Suspect survived and the suspect was given life in prison without parole. the Sheriff was massively impressed with josh for saving his life and his quick thinking and gave him the role of Assistant Sheriff.

### Top of the Department

Shortly after the death of the Sheriff who had died of a stroke in 2014, Josh McAurthur had ran for Sheriff and a combination of his personality, story, and job experience, he was elected with a very high majority of the vote for him. He officially entered the office of Sheriff January of 2015.

Not much occurred during his time as Sheriff other than one assassination attempt during Late 2020 where he was targeted during a traffic stop where 2 officers were killed by very high caliber weaponry, and josh luckily had the shot skim the plate in his plate carrier. Due to this attempt, he decided to step down from his position as sheriff, and later returned to civilian life

### Post Law Enforcement

After leaving the force, Josh cut contact with all of his friends in Law Enforcement and mostly went dark, with very few details left. All that is known is that he is the lead mechanic at a local car repair service known as Auto Exotic inc.

Josh McAurthur had a ceremony for his stepping down as Sheriff, where before walking off stage he stated his last recorded spoken words

> "San Andreas, Shoot for more than just the stars... Shoot for those who wish to harm us!"
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## Trivia

* Josh McAurthur is by far the oldest character in the server, and predates the server. First starting 2 servers ago (created around 2014)
* Josh McAurthur's Great Great Grandfather was the Sheriff of Annesburg (RDR2 Roleplay)