East Side Vagos (ESV)

**The East Side Vagos (ESV)** also known as the Vagos, are a large Mexican street gang. They operate out of the Barrio, based in the Jamestown area. The Vagos became a large drug trafficking, money laundering, weapons trafficking and organized cartel. The Vagos Cartel's "journey" to power was quite a swift one, with founder Jose Ph the Vagos Cartel was and currently still is impenetrable.

## History

*Vagos members with lowriders*
**El Burro Heights, 2017**

Life in El Burro Heights used to be relatively peacefull and normal, except the occasional drive-bys launched by local asian street gangs (primarily vietnamese and the chinese ones), armenian mob crews and last, but not least, a more newer mexican street gang that just settled in within a couple of years, called East Side Vagos or locally and simply reffered to as "Vagos”. At the time, it was made of a core of 10-30 ppl with another 50 of them as associates and they were all coordinated by their local leader, Jose Ph. Things weren’t always as peacefull as it seemed though, as there was always a constant fight for power, money and opportunistic moves, which happened at least 2 years earlier.

**2015**

At the time , things were still going smoothly for the Vagos and it seemed there was a sense of stability within the gang. It used to operate in chop shop crime rings, drug operations and sometimes gun trafficking. At its peak it was so big that it had 2 sub-sets, one of them being the Los Santos Vagos which was based in Jamestown and the other one , East Side Locos , which was still led by nobody else but Jose himself. At the time, notable members within the gang were Isabella Sanchez with her boyfriend Antonio , in some areas know as "Timmy” or "Timmy Taco” (who were shotcallers at the time), Natalie Fatale, Carlos Santana, Jose Ph, Kate Denson and Nicole "Nikki” Morano.

The way the 2 sub-sets were led differently, which meant that the 2 leadership comittees were different as well. However , the gang made sure there was no single leader in the top, which meant hierarchy was still somewhat flat, making harder for cops to track them down. Isabella Sanchez preffered to be the iron-fisted , ruthless and yet resourcefull type of shotcaller (or "Chaparita” for closer ones) , which made the gang set itself highly lucrative , efficient and yet a powerfull ally of the Ballas, but a big threat to the Davis Neighbourhood Families Gang set (otherwise known as DNFG), whose notable members at the time where Django Gypsy, Jamal Jones, Samuel "Sammy” Pandol and Cid Engineer.

On the other hand, East Side Locos was designed to be a support group for Los Santos Vagos and not only they had more members than Los Santos Vagos (LSV), but they were also known to be even more ruthless than LSV. However , within the gang and when not in wartime missions, Jose Ph was a more relaxed, reasonable and yet softer type of shotcaller ("Jefe”), which means he didn’t have the constant desire for control Isabella had. Overtime , due to ppl preffering Jose more than Isabella he started getting more and more influence within the gang which led to a futher conflict of interests within the gang.

Over time, this escalated in 2 gang wars between DNFG and Los Santos Vagos, which resulted in victory of the Vagos, during the first war and after a short-lived armistice, DNFG managed to win the 2nd war, but with extremely expensive costs both in resources and manpower. As a result of this many of the initial members of Los Santos Vagos, including Carlos Santana, died and the set started shrinking in size.
The last blow to this was Jose’s growth in power and which culminated in the execution of Isabella Sanchez and Antonio, which marked a new chapter for the Vagos.

After the incidents of 2015, the gang started to reorganise itself under one single gang set called East Side Vagos, whose new leader turned out to be the same Jose Ph. Gang not only that started to grow in manpower and resources, but sucessfully managed to seize a big chunk of the drug operations within the whole city and it went to a point where in order to not get tracked down by the Feds , Jose had to start laundering money by buying crazy amounts of properties including a dockyard warehouse somewhere in California. At some point he even had his face engraved on one of the walls from the housing projects buildings. Throughout 2017 to 2019, despite some funerals gang attend to ,it started increasing in numbers again and rebecoming active with notable members such Francisco Garcia De La Rosa, Eduardo "Taco” Portillo and Daniel Stein.

*Vagos celebrating in the barrio with Lowriders*
With gang now back on its feet, things down the street started to look up to Montecito Heights and the underworld, at least in the South Side area became more and more peacefull again, with gangs now battling the cops instead of each other.

However, due to the city laws becoming more and more stricter and authorities launching more crackdowns on street gangsters for no reasons. Gang started going into hiding, with Jose booking a plane out to Florida, while other members, such as Francisco Garcia and Eduardo "Taco” Portillo, went back to Mexico so that they stay clear from the current lootings that happened in the city and the short-lived civil war that ensued afterwards, which ended in a rebellion victory and new governors being put in place.

**2019**

Due to the recent rebellions , mexican border authorities started to grow concerned of the conflict expanding south the border , so a military curfew has been put in place on both sides of the border. This mean that the mexican prime-minister publicly announced the suspension of the NAFTA agreements between Mexico and USA until the turmoil in Montecito Heights stopped. In the meantime, Francisco and Eduardo ( some of the very few Vagos gang members who survived) stayed safely in Mexico, in Tampico-Veracruz and respectively Lacandon, where Eduardo started secretly using his cartel-like skills he had to join the fight on the side of the Los Zapatistas (EZLN).

**2021**

Suprisingly, while everyone else on the global level had to endure the catastrophical consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic which slowly started fading away from the main stage of the world overtime and after restriction finally stopped being enforced on the international level, NAFTA agreement got put back into active enforcement by both mexican and american authorities. Francisco finally started to enjoy the great outdoors while Eduardo frantically and almost patriotically resumed his fight for EZLN cause. Overtime tho , since Francisco was missing the good old lifestyle he had in the Vagos, he started making a phonecall to Eduardo, who finally responded after 5 minutes and in which they talked about moving back to the city to check out the former barrio they used to control.

On the way there, they bumped into a local vago member from Mexico called Felipe who happened to be another survivor of the 2019 Montecito Heights massacre and together, the 3 gang members finally started moving back to US, now with a set goal of getting the name of the Vagos back in the map and run a crew on their own.

## Structure

The ESV has the following rank structure.

1. El Jefe (The Boss)
2. Mando (Second-In Charge)
3. El Capitan (Captain)
4. El Teniente (Lieutenant
5. Pandillero (Gangster)
6. Soldado (Soldier)
7. Hangaround

## La Familia

### **Active:**

* Francisco "Loco" Garcia De La Rosa
* Eduardo "Taco" Portillo
* Felipe Pablo Diego Jose
* Johny Savage
* Angelina Delarosa
* Raizel Delarosa