| nws_tre2.oxt | 1.41 | 0x78715D56 | Claudine Shorn - Senora Beacon<br>The Blaine County Sheriff's office told reporters it was swamped and unable to cope following the recent outbreak of drug-related violence in the Senora Desert region and across Blaine County. Another violent incident yesterday saw a massive shootout between drug factions at Sandy Shores Airfield that left many dead and police confused. Police Spokesman Elmore Thickett told reporters "these violent incidents are becoming all too common in Blaine County. Sure, we've always had problems - this is a poor county - but the past few months have seen things get completely out of control. We don't know how to cope and are requesting help from the state. So far, they seem more interested in posing in movies than stopping folk up here from getting shot but that ain't nothing new." Experts are blaming the violence on a multi-sided turf war with participants trying to gain control of the cocaine trade from Mexico into Los Santos, as well as the methamphetamine trade most of which is manufactured locally before being sold overseas and across the country. As many as five major gangs may be involved in the trade. Some are seen as particularly deranged. The highly lucrative crystal methamphetamine trade seems to be headquartered in the towns around the Alamo Sea, while it is also believed several Mexican cartels also have a presence in the area. Police have attributed several recent massacres to an on-going turf war thought to involve four or five different gangs, including: outlaw biker gangs, Mexican cartels, street gangs from Los Santos and two or more local operations. Some recent shootouts have been so bloody, some local politicians are calling for increased firepower and have requested either military or paramilitary support to control recent events. Don Percival, CEO of Merryweather has offered his company's services. Reports link several incidents to a particular local drug dealer police are desperately trying to identify. Police are appealing for calm, within reason. "We want people to panic but only in so far as it is useful" they told us. |
| nws_tre2.oxt | 1.41 | 0x98706360 | Several hitchhikers have gone missing in Blaine County. Police confused. |
| nws_tre2.oxt | 1.41 | 0xA217B0A2 | Leslie Gardner - Weazel News<br>Controversial firm Merryweather Security Consulting denied they are already working a security detail at the Port of Los Santos. The port, the world's second busiest, has long been seen as a potential weak spot in the war on terror, with up to a third of America's imports and half of all exports passing through. After several lapses in security over the past 3 years, Don Percival, Merryweather's outspoken CEO has been lobbying for the contract. Given the controversy around outsourcing government defence contracts, Merryweather felt compelled to say they were not working there yet, until the matter was properly resolved. Percival's spokesman told us, "Yes Don has friends in government. Yes Don sometimes takes the friends on expensive vacations and yes, Don is competing for highly lucrative government defense contracts. We see no possible conflicts of interest. If you can't trust a xenophobic psychopath with a private army, who can you trust? He's the perfect American, so why would he want to defraud a country he loves." |
| nws_tre3.oxt | 1.41 | 0x2D93882A | Reed Brazier - Daily Rag<br>Murder nerds are still going crazy for Leonora Johnson, the beautiful starlet who was hacked to death nearly 40 years ago in a crime that has never been solved. The murder has long fascinated a section of Los Santos crime aficionados and recently some believe there may have been a breakthrough in the long cold case. A slip of the tongue from movie executive Ira Richards led some to believe that his grandfather, Vinewood legend David Richards may have destroyed a confession letter shortly before he died. Various people are still trying to find remnants of the letter and see who wrote it. Mr Richards now claims he was misquoted and that this is a non story but that hasn't put off amateur detectives who have long believed a Vinewood cover-up helped protect a powerful killer who may still walk among us. |
| nws_tre3.oxt | 1.41 | 0x3FC22C87 | Robin Wark - Los Santos Meteor<br>Sergeant Tim Kenner never forgets a face. "That's because I paint pictures of every criminal I apprehend, and their faces are typically a bloody mess by the time I'm done," Kenner says. The paintings are all the rage among conservative arts patrons. Groups say that many of the people Kenner paints are never convicted of a crime and that he is effectively trolling the streets in a patrol car looking for subjects to paint. He also paints homicide scenes. "It relaxes me," Kenner said. |
| nws_tre3.oxt | 1.41 | 0x98941254 | Stab city earning its name amidst violence. |
| nws_tre3.oxt | 1.41 | 0xAACEB6C9 | Nerds still stiff for stiff. |
| nws_tre3.oxt | 1.41 | 0xAE6809D1 | Claudine Shorn - Senora Beacon<br>A trailer park on the South West corner of the Alamo Sea has been destroyed in a series of explosions that could be heard as far away as Paleto Bay. 'Stab City', as it was unironically known, was a known biker gang stronghold and it is assumed that this was yet another revenge attack by rival drug gangs in the ever worsening drug wars that have been plaguing our region. When will this violence end? Can there be many more bikers left to kill at this point? Or will they just keep popping back up like weeds as we have seen so many times before? |
| nws_tre3.oxt | 1.41 | 0xBC11D94F | Cop artist: I'm painting the perps! |
| ojasaud.oxt | 1.41 | 0x009BD71E | ~z~So, what's up, man? |