Every Confirmed Gang and Faction in GTA 6

Leonida Has a Full Criminal Ecosystem

Vice City is not a city with gangs. It is a city built around them. The criminal organizations, law enforcement agencies, and everything operating in the space between them form the social architecture that the story runs through. Every confirmed faction in the Leonida database is covered here.

What they are, what they control, what the official footage shows, and where the analysis points. Every faction links to its full database entry. Confirmed intelligence is labeled as such. Analysis is labeled too.

The Crews Running Vice City

Six criminal organisations are confirmed in Leonida. They operate across different territories, economies, and cultural registers. No two of them are the same type of criminal enterprise, which is what makes the Vice City criminal map interesting.

7X

7X is the crew that rewrote the rules of what a criminal organisation looks like in Vice City. No corner to hold. No supply chain. The operation runs through social media. Crimes are content. The audience is the asset. Confirmed in both trailers through visual presence in Vice City street sequences and the Snapmatic infrastructure they operate through.

The real-world reference is the intersection of South Florida drill culture, the street content economy on social platforms, and the specific Vice City demographic born into a world where everything is filmed. 7X understood before anyone else in Vice City that attention is a resource and that criminal credibility and platform credibility are not separate things.

High Rollerz

High Rollerz run the Vice City illegal racing circuit. Confirmed in both trailers through racing sequences on the Vice City waterfront and the highway approaches. The crew is the infrastructure for the street racing economy: the events, the betting, the car culture that the racing activity operates within.

The real-world reference is the South Florida illegal racing scene, which has generated documented law enforcement operations and a Vice City car culture that predates the crew's fictional equivalent. High Rollerz are the organisation that gives the Sultan RS context.

Leonida Cartel

The Leonida Cartel is the drug trafficking operation at the top of Vice City's criminal supply chain. Confirmed in official material. The Port Gellhorn corridor is their logistics network. Raul Bautista operates within this infrastructure at the Port Gellhorn end.

The Leonida Cartel is not a Vice City street crew. They are the wholesale layer. The other criminal organisations in Vice City operate in relation to them, either as customers, competitors, or independent of their supply chain entirely.

Outlaw Motorcycle Gang

The Outlaw Motorcycle Gang operates on the Vice County highway network. Confirmed in official footage through highway sequences and the Nightblade motorcycle presence. The OMG occupies the rural Vice County corridor that the cartel operates through on the road network.

The real-world reference is the documented 1% motorcycle club presence in Florida, which has historically operated in logistics, territory enforcement, and the specific criminal economy of the rural highway network.

Real Dimez

Real Dimez is the Vice City street crew in the residential districts. Confirmed in official material. The basketball courts, the neighbourhood infrastructure, the Vice City streets behind the tourist strip. Real Dimez are the crew that the city's residential economy runs through at street level.

San 4 San

San 4 San is confirmed as an active Vice City criminal organisation. Distinct from Real Dimez in territory and operating model. The full picture of their Vice City position is not yet fully documented in official material.

The Agencies Running the Wanted System

Leonida has a layered law enforcement architecture. Not one agency. A hierarchy, each with a defined jurisdiction and a defined position in the wanted-level escalation chain. Understanding which agency responds at which star count is practical intelligence, not trivia.

VCPD

The Vice City Police Department is the first response. Patrol cars, the Police Buffalo on every Vice City street, and the aerial response from the Police Maverick at escalated situations. Confirmed in both trailers across multiple sequences.

The VCPD sets the tone for every wanted-level interaction in the city. One and two stars are VCPD. The Bravado Police Buffalo and the Bravado Police Buffalo STX are their pursuit vehicles. The Gauntlet Interceptor is the high-performance unit deployed for the situations the standard patrol cars cannot close.

VCSO

The Vice County Sheriff's Office covers everything outside VCPD jurisdiction. The county roads, the rural Vice County corridor, the suburban fringe. The Declasse Sheriff SUV is their standard vehicle. Confirmed in official footage in Vice County highway and suburban sequences.

LHP

The Leonida Highway Patrol covers the state road network between jurisdictions. Highway sequences, the long roads between Vice City and the interior. Confirmed in official footage.

Leonida State Police

The Leonida State Police covers the parts of the state that fall outside VCPD and VCSO jurisdiction and handles the escalation tier between county enforcement and federal response.

Vice Beach Police

The Vice Beach Police is the coastal enforcement unit. The South Beach tourist corridor, the beachfront, the areas where the VCPD's city-grid mandate meets the specific geography of the waterfront. The Vapid Scout Police is their vehicle.

Vice County SWAT

Vice County SWAT is the tactical response layer. The tier between standard police response and the federal ceiling. Confirmed in high-wanted-level sequences in official footage.

NOOSE

NOOSE is the wanted-level ceiling. The federal tactical response that deploys when the situation has moved past municipal and county capability. Confirmed in official material.

The Institutions Behind the Walls

Leonida DOC

The Leonida Department of Corrections is not background infrastructure. The story opens with Lucia Caminos in custody. The DOC is the institutional environment that the opening sequence establishes. What the DOC means for the narrative is confirmed. What it means for the mission structure beyond the opening is not yet fully documented.

Vice County Correctional Services

Vice County Corrections is the county jail. The pre-trial and short-sentence detention layer below the state prison system. Confirmed in official material.

Brute Security

Brute Security moves money and assets across Leonida in armored vehicles. The clients are banks, financial institutions, and cash-heavy businesses in Vice City. The armored car is a confirmed robbery target. The route, the guard count, and the vehicle's cargo are the variables the player will need to know before approaching one.

The Agencies That Keep Leonida Running

Four public service agencies are confirmed in the faction database. They are not adversaries in the conventional sense. They are the ambient infrastructure of the state, present at incidents, visible on the roads, and occasionally relevant to specific mission types.

Animal Control

Leonida Animal Control covers wildlife incidents across the state. In a state with confirmed alligators, pythons, and a Florida panther population, this agency has a functional role in the Leonida environment. Confirmed in official footage in a Vice County sequence.

Leonida EMS

Leonida EMS runs the ambulance and paramedic infrastructure. Present at incident scenes. The Vice City call volume is measured in minutes that matter.

Leonida Fire Department

LFD covers fire and rescue across the state. Vice City's building density and the Vice County industrial corridor both generate the specific fire scenarios that the department responds to.

Vice County Transit

Vice County Transit runs the bus network. Not the luxury end of the transport economy. The working population's infrastructure. The Brute Shuttle Bus is the vehicle. The route is fixed. The schedule is predictable.

The Faction Map Is the Story Map

Twenty confirmed factions across six categories. What the list tells you, read together, is the social and institutional architecture of the state. The criminal organisations are not competing for the same territory. Each occupies a different part of the Leonida economy. 7X holds attention. The Cartel holds supply. The OMG holds the highway. High Rollerz hold the racing circuit. Real Dimez hold the street. Each one is a different kind of power.

The law enforcement architecture mirrors this complexity. Seven agencies with overlapping and distinct jurisdictions. The protagonist does not deal with "the police". They deal with the VCPD in Vice City, the VCSO in the county, the LHP on the highway, and NOOSE when the situation has moved past all of them.