Grove Street Families

The Grove Street Families, also known as The Families or GSF for short, is a Los Santos street gang based in Grove Street in Ganton, Los Santos. The gang is led by Sweet and Carl Johnson, and are heavily involved in the criminal underworld of Los Santos and San Andreas.

History
The gang is a long stranding gang in Los Santos and are known to be heavily involved in a gang war against their closest enemies the Ballas, although the gang is also rivalos with both the Los Santos Vagos and Varrios Los Aztecas. The 1987-1992 period saw the Families begin to lose ground to the Ballas who became heavily involved in the drugs trade. Sweet, however, remained adamant in his objection to the Families becoming involved in the trade. Big Smoke, a high ranking member, began to see the fall of the gang and the potential for power, influence and money the trade could bring. He joined an alliance between the Ballas, Los Santos Vagos and the corrupt Community Resources Against Street Hoodlums department of the LSPD, while remaining involved in the Families to pass on information about their activities.

The Families continued to lose influence and later unity when the gangs factions began to fight against each other. The gang also began to lose influential members such as Big Devil, Little Devil and Tony, all of whom by 1992 were deceased. B Dup and Big Bear also began to move into the drugs trade, with Bear becoming heavily addicted and the man servant of Dup. The Ballas, becoming more powerful and influential, decide to try and kill Sweet in a drive-by shooting but succeed in killing his mother.

Events of San Andreas
The death of Beverly Johnson causes Sweet to phone his brother Carl in Liberty City. Carl returns for the funeral. Carl, initially intending to return to Liberty City, decides to stay and help the gang overcome their arch rivals. The gang's fortunes, with Carl performing various jobs, manages to tackle the Ballas threat and even takes control of the Glen Park neighborhood. The three sub-groups also attempt to reconcile their differences, although this was interrupted by the police.

The Ballas, however, continue their assault by attempting to take control of Ganton and later work with Frank Tenpenny, the head of C.R.A.S.H., to set up Sweet in a shoot out under the Mulholland Intersection. Sweet is shot during the shoot out while Carl attempts to fend the Ballas off but both are arrested by the police. Sweet is taken to prison but Carl is taken to a small town where he is manipulated into doing jobs for C.R.A.S.H.

During this time, the Families had become subservient to the Ballas and Los Santos Vagos. Families members also began to run drugs between a drugs factory in Doherty, San Fierro back to Los Santos. Carl, after becoming a leading criminal figure in both San Fierro and Las Venturas, returns to Los Santos to take control of Madd Dogg's mansion. While at the mansion he is contacted by undercover government agent Mike Toreno, for whom he had previously worked, and steals a military jet and destroys five spy boats. Carl manages to perform the task and is rewarded by Toreno with the release of Sweet.

Carl attempts to convince Sweet to join him away from Los Santos but returns to take control of Ganton when an adamant Sweet informed him he would not be leaving. The Families, now being led by both Sweet and Carl, begin to exert their influence on the city again, including taking control of Glen Park and Idlewood. The gang, however, finally re-assert their dominance in the city when Carl and Sweet killed Smoke and caused Tenpenny's death.

Appearance
There are three different pedestrian models for the gang. One of the gang members can be seen wearing a green pattern shirt with a white undershirt, tan pants, and black and white shoes. The other gang member wears a green bandana on his head, a green hoodie with white undershirt, dark blue pants and white shoes. The last gang member wears a black hat, a green sports top, black pants, and blak and white shoes.