Gangs and Factions

Gangs and Factions

Grand Theft Auto VI features multiple confirmed criminal organizations operating across Leonida. Unlike previous GTA games where gangs were primarily street-level organizations fighting over turf, GTA VI's criminal landscape includes outlaw motorcycle clubs, drug smuggling networks, music industry fronts, professional heist crews, and corporate-political machines. Each organization has a distinct territory, leadership structure, and relationship to the game's two protagonists.

The information below covers only organizations confirmed through Rockstar's official website, the two official trailers, and official screenshots. Unverified leak material is excluded.

Final Chapter MC

Type: Outlaw motorcycle club

Territory: Ambrosia County

Established: 1982 (per patches visible in trailer footage)

The Final Chapter MC is an outlaw motorcycle club that controls Ambrosia's underground economy. Rockstar's official Ambrosia description refers to them as "the local biker gang" that "provides almost everything else" beyond the jobs supplied by the Allied Crystal sugar refinery. The "Final Chapter MC" name comes from patches visible on member clothing in official media.

The club operates out of a confirmed clubhouse in Ambrosia. Their power in the region runs parallel to Allied Crystal's corporate dominance. The refinery provides legal employment, and the Final Chapter MC provides the criminal infrastructure that fills every gap: drugs, enforcement, protection, and whatever else the residents need that a sugar company does not sell.

No individual named members have been officially revealed by Rockstar. The gang is confirmed through visual identification in trailers and the official Ambrosia location description. Their 1982 founding date, visible on patches, places their origins in the early Reagan era, a period of significant motorcycle club expansion across the American South.

Brian Heder's Smuggling Network

Type: Drug smuggling operation

Territory: Leonida Keys (Key Lento)

Front business: Brian's Boat Works and Marina

Brian Heder is a veteran drug runner operating out of the Leonida Keys. Rockstar's official description calls him "a classic drug runner from the golden age of smuggling in the Keys" who "looks like a Leonida beach bum" but "moves like a great white shark." He runs his operation through Brian's Boat Works and Marina on Key Lento, a functioning boatyard that doubles as a smuggling hub.

Confirmed Associates

Brian's operation uses a company-branded Dodo seaplane as the primary transport vehicle for moving product. His confirmed quote about his smuggling past: "I hauled so much grass in that plane, I could make the state of Leonida levitate." The operation is structured so that Brian himself rarely takes direct risk anymore. He has delegated the dangerous work to Jason and others while maintaining control from the marina.

Cal Hampton

Cal Hampton is Jason's personal friend and a loose associate of Brian's network. Rockstar's official description reads: "What if everything on the internet was true? Jason's friend and a fellow associate of Brian's, Cal feels safest hanging at home, snooping on Coast Guard comms with a few beers and some private browser tabs open. Cal is at the low tide of America and happy there."

Cal serves a surveillance and intelligence role. His habit of monitoring Coast Guard communications makes him useful to Brian's smuggling operation, even if his motivations are more paranoid curiosity than criminal ambition. He represents a type of character common in Florida's Keys communities: someone who drifted to the edge of civilization and found it comfortable.

Boobie Ike's Empire

Type: Criminal-legitimate business empire

Territory: Vice City (Crosstown district)

Boobie Ike is described by Rockstar as "a local Vice City legend, and acts like it. One of the few to transform his time in the streets into a legitimate empire spanning real estate, a strip club, and a recording studio. It's all about heart: the Jack of Hearts."

Business Holdings

Boobie's empire is built on a criminal foundation. He came from the streets and used drug money to fund his transition into legitimate businesses. The Jack of Hearts strip club and Only Raw Records are the visible faces of an empire that is still connected to its criminal roots. Rockstar describes him as all smiles until business gets serious.

Dre'Quan Priest and Only Raw Records

Type: Music industry operation with criminal roots

Territory: Vice City music scene

Dre'Quan Priest is the CEO of Only Raw Records, the in-game hip-hop label co-managed with Boobie Ike. Rockstar's official description reads: "Dre'Quan was always more of a hustler than a gangster. Even when he was dealing on the streets to make ends meet, breaking into music was the goal. Now that he's signed the Real Dimez, Dre'Quan's days of booking acts into Boobie's strip club might be numbered as he sets his sights on the Vice City scene."

Only Raw Records Roster

Only Raw Records represents a new dimension for GTA's criminal organizations. It is not a street gang or a cartel. It is a music label funded by drug money, run by a former dealer, and backed by a strip club owner with a criminal past. The label's artists, Real Dimez, appear in Trailer 1 dancing on top of a car during a street takeover scene. The organization operates at the intersection of entertainment and crime, using the music industry as both a money-laundering vehicle and a genuine creative enterprise.

Raul Bautista's Heist Crew

Type: Professional bank robbery crew

Territory: Statewide (operates across Leonida)

Raul Bautista is a seasoned bank robber and heist organizer. Rockstar's official description reads: "Confidence, charm, and cunning: Raul's a seasoned bank robber always on the hunt for talent ready to take the risks that bring the biggest rewards. Raul's recklessness raises the stakes with every score. Sooner or later, his crew will have to double down or pull their chips from the table."

Raul functions as a recruiter who assembles crews for high-stakes scores. His character page on Rockstar's official website links to "Explore Ambrosia," suggesting a narrative connection to that region. He is shown in trailer footage in a shootout alongside Jason and Lucia, confirming he is directly involved with the protagonists' criminal escalation.

Raul's crew represents the high end of GTA VI's criminal spectrum. While Jason and Lucia start with small-time robberies (liquor stores, pawn shops), Raul offers access to major scores that carry proportionally higher risk. His recklessness is explicitly flagged by Rockstar as a danger: every job raises the stakes until someone has to walk away or go all in.

High Rollerz Lifestyle

Type: Automotive media brand (not a criminal gang)

Territory: Vice City car culture scene

High Rollerz Lifestyle is an automotive lifestyle magazine and social media brand, not a criminal organization. It appears in Trailer 1 with the social media handle @HighRollerzMag, covering a car meetup scene. The brand documents Vice City's customized vehicle culture, including lowriders and street-modified cars.

High Rollerz is based on real publications like Streetlow Magazine (also known as Streetlow Lifestyle), which covers lowrider culture in the American Southwest and South Florida. While the brand itself is not criminal, the car culture it covers overlaps with street life and gang-adjacent communities. The Trailer 1 car meetup scene shows the intersection of automotive enthusiasm and Vice City's street scene.

Allied Crystal (Corporate Faction)

Type: Sugar corporation with political influence

Territory: Ambrosia County

Allied Crystal is not a gang, but it functions as a power faction in Leonida. The sugar refinery company dominates Ambrosia's economy as the sole significant employer and exerts direct political influence through funding the campaign of mayoral candidate Erin Henshaw. Rockstar frames Allied Crystal and the Final Chapter MC as the two pillars of Ambrosia's power structure: one controls the legal economy, the other controls everything else.

Allied Crystal is the in-game equivalent of U.S. Sugar, a real company that operates a large sugar mill in Clewiston, Florida and has historically been one of the largest political donors in the state.

Law Enforcement

Community analysis of Trailer 1 identified nine distinct law enforcement agency types across Leonida. These represent the organized state opposition to the criminal factions listed above.

The separation between VCPD (city), VDPD (county), and VBPD (beach district) mirrors real Miami's fragmented law enforcement, where Miami PD, Miami-Dade PD, and Miami Beach PD are three entirely separate departments with overlapping jurisdictions. This fragmentation creates opportunities for criminals to exploit gaps between agencies. For more on how law enforcement operates across Leonida, see the dedicated article.

Criminal Hierarchy

GTA VI's criminal organizations operate at different levels of scale and ambition, creating a layered underworld that mirrors the game's geography.

The protagonists' trajectory moves through these layers. Jason starts as Brian Heder's enforcer in the Keys, doing shakedowns and debt collection. He and Lucia commit petty robberies in Port Gellhorn. Through Raul Bautista, they gain access to bigger scores. Rockstar's official synopsis describes an "easy score gone wrong" that pulls them into "a criminal conspiracy stretching across the state of Leonida." That conspiracy likely connects multiple organizations on this list.