Adolfo “Scrapper” Porras and Andrew Romero

A gathering of 18th Street Willowfield Gangsters members in 2013. Adolfo pictured on the bottom row, second right in the black clothing.

Adolfo was born in the Mexican city of Culiacán to parents Pedro Porras and Milena Acosta in April of 1997.

His father, Pedro, grew up in the barrio of Paseo de Los Pinos to peasant sugar cane farmers in Culiacán in the 90s. When he was eight years old, he was already working in the fields nearby Navolato. When he was nine years old and two months, his family moved to the outskirts of the town of Navolato in order for more convenience as they were closer to their workplaces. Often traveling to and from Navolato and Culiacán, he was recruited by street gangs in his home barrio while attending school and working in the fields. He joined the Sicarios in Paseo de Los Pinos when he was thirteen years old. By this point in time, he had completely abandoned his family and had dedicated his life to his gang.

In 1996, as a seventeen year old, he had a one night stand with a fourteen year old, submissive peasant girl named Milena Acosta and got her pregnant. When he found out about her pregnancy, he was shocked and refused to have anything to do with her from then on. However, seven months into her pregnancy, he returned to her side and convinced her that he was sorry for what he did. Two months later, at the age of fifteen, Milena gave birth to a son that she and Pedro named Adolfo.

Pedro was there to raise his son for the first couple years of his life. In 2001, Pedro was murdered by his gang after it became rumored that he was going to try to betray his gang in favor of joining the Vatos Malvados, a gang which more members of his family had joined.

In the pursuit of seeking a better life, Milena and the family of her father and mother immigrated to South Los Santos in 2003 and re-united with two of Milena's siblings, Esmeralda and Oscar and their parents.

Milena, her parents and Adolfo settled into the Beehive Projects in Idlewood.

Milena's parents were forced to get menial labor jobs in the nearby Dorchester-Bork Industrial District in Willowfield as meat packers in a meat packing plant while she looked after her child.

Within six years of immigration to the United States of America, Adolfo was speaking fluent English and mixed elements of Sinaloense and Chicano culture into his life.

Because he had relatives living in El Corona and Willowfield, he became a well traveled resident of South Central Los Santos and would often stay in El Corona and Willowfield for extended periods of time.

Having garnered a reputation at the Idlewood Junior High School for being a fierce fighter, he soon attracted the attention of Idlewood 13. He kicked it back with Idlewood 13 and his criminal activities with them were limited to brawling with rival gangs, where he was seen as useful because of his viciousness. This is where his moniker Scrapper is derived from. As a fourteen year old entering high school, he decided not to pursue full membership into Idlewood 13 in favor of completing his high school education.

Fed up with his rebellious behavior involving fighting, alcohol & drug use and gang affiliation, his family in the Beehive Projects sent him to live with his aunt Esmeralda Romero (nee Porras) and cousin Andrew Romero in Willowfield when he was sixteen years and eleven months old.

He knew members of the 18th Street Willowfield Gangsters and did the occasional oddjob for them, such as holding drugs or weapons for them when needed and working as a mechanic assistant at Nasty Boy's garages.

When he was seventeen years and three months old, he robbed and brutally assaulted an elderly man outside of the 69c store on the corner of Unity Boulevard in El Corona. He was apprehended a few blocks away from the scene while returning to Willowfield from east Ganton and was charged with the robbery and assault. Three months later, he was convicted of robbery and assault and was sent to serve the rest of his days as a seventeen year old in the Venturas Youth Authority in Las Venturas.

He's been out of the Y.A for a month now and holds down a job at Harlow Street's Going Gas. Because the service station is understaffed, he is kept on the staff roster because of this, despite him not showing up for work most of the time. He ordinarily works the evening shifts as a part-time job.

He regularly babysits his cousins in El Corona and has attracted the attention of the Pee Wee Gangsters, a Sureño click in the neighborhood. He has recently befriended Alan “Lefty” Beltrán and has been convinced about joining the gang.

He currently lives with Alan and Alan's mother on 38th Street and has left the apartment that he's been squatting out on Idlewood's Winona Avenue for a month now behind. He is interested in bringing his own blood into what he's got going for himself and has recently contacted Andrew Romero, who is also fresh out of a youth correctional facility, to come along with him in his endeavors.




Andrew Romero, far left, pictured with Donald Diaz, first person to his right, at a house party at a house at an Arbutus Street, Willowfield property in November 2014.

Andrew Romero is the cousin of Adolfo “Scrapper” Porras and is the former pupil of 18th Street Willowfield Gangsters member Donald “Bam Bam” Diaz. He was raised in Willowfield for his whole life to a multi-generational Mexican American father, George Romero, and Adolfo Porras's aunt, Esmeralda Romero (nee Porras). Despite his mother being considered a paisa because of her strong, longstanding adherence into Sinaloa's Sinaloense cultural customs and norms, his father identifies as being Chicano and Andrew follows what his father does more-so than his mother while still acknowledging his partial Sinaloan roots.

Esmeralda has the same Culiacán gang roots that her sister Milena does, however, she nor Milena were ever members of a street gang. Instead, she worked hard on sugar cane plantations in the Navolato Municipality with older generations of her family and aspired to leave Mexico for places with bigger and better opportunities. When she was seventeen years and a month old, her parents and her maternal grandmother moved to South Central Los Santos and settled in Willowfield. Keen to improve her socioeconomic standing by getting a better education, she held down menial style jobs in the spring and summers in the fields of northern Los Santos County in order to get money to head to community college. She spent her winters working minimum wage jobs in Willowfield and east Ganton until her family decided to go on welfare when she was nineteen. When she was twenty three and studying business management at the East Los Santos Community College, she met George Romero, aged nineteen, who was studying the same thing and who was involved in the athletic programs at the school. The two of them began dating, fell for each other and married in 1994, when Esmeralda was twenty six. Only a month and two weeks later did the couple know that they are going to have a child.

Esmeralda and George operated a coin laundry business in Willowfield with the help of their degrees from the East Los Community College and years-long accumulated welfare benefits. In the years following their business's opening, everything was going smoothly but other coin laundries in Willowfield opened up and this created competition. With this came a loss of earnings and soon enough there was financial trouble in the business. Their business was foreclosed in 2007 when Andrew was ten years old. Unable to provide much for themselves, the family went back on welfare but Andrew's involvement with team sports in the community stayed functional because of the social programs that his family were signed up for.

When Andrew was thirteen years old, he started taking after his mother by getting to work early in life: he did this by lying to local businesses about his age and getting jobs at them. He was bagging groceries at convenience stores in order to help his family pay rent.

By the time he had entered high school, his interest in sports had dwindled and he hardly showed up for the already unsuccessful soccer team of Willowfield High School's games and practices. He also favored working to help support his family. He was kicked off the senior boys team for an almost complete lack of participation and effort and that was that.

He and his cousin sometimes kicked it with each other when they lived together for a brief time in 2013 and 2014, although Adolfo was far more interested in being by himself and although Adolfo was out of the house more often than not.

While working at a flea market as a seventeen year old, he helped his family pay for the upkeep of social housing on Arbutus Street. This is where he met his mentor, Donald “Bam Bam” Diaz. They soon became close and Donald was soon teaching Andrew how to hit licks and had introduced him to the neighborhood chop shop owner and former Willowfield Gangster, Alejandro “Nasty Boy” Villanueva. But in October, his involvement with the gang came to an abrupt hiatus. While riding in a stolen sports car with Seriah “Sneaky” Coreas, he was apprehended by the Los Santos Police Department for being an accomplice to grand theft auto. A couple weeks later, he was convicted and was sent to the Angel Pine Juvenile Delinquent Reform Center and Boot Camp in the woods surrounding Angel Pine. While there, he was put into programs designed to foster an interest in physical and mental health as well as youth crime intervention programs and was made to help the community of Angel Pine through charity related work and organizations.

With his release and return to Willowfield in the following April, he soon found out that Donald had turned developed mental illness and turned to crystal methamphetamine and that Seriah was dead. Still persistent in getting jumped into the gang, he put his education on the backburner and decided to pursue a full time career in crime. He extorted stores with Donald and kicked part of his dirty profits up to his family in order to support them. He soon began delving into drug dealing out of a greed for more money and worked with Frederick “Gordo” Loma and Sebastian “Popeye” Ojeda in doing this.

Upon his eighteenth birthday in early May 2015, Andrew's parents began planning his removal from their social housing unit. On May 12th, Andrew was kicked out of his family's household and was told to find his own way in life. Since his removal from his own household, he has followed in his cousin Adolfo's footsteps and has became a barrio drifter. He has been contacted by Adolfo in the past days and has been enticed by him to come on over to El Corona and make a living there. Seeing as though the Willowfield Gangsters don't regard him with high importance, Andrew has packed his bags up and left Willowfield in favor of being with his cousin Adolfo.