Los Santos crime family captain Victor Fara has been moved to a halfway house in West Los Santos. A budding mobster through-and-through, Victor Fara was born to second generation working class Italian immigrants in Detroit, Michigan. By the age of 18, Victor was a known bookie that ran numbers for high profile Detroit mobsters however this was all over shadowed by his older brother's accomplishments who seemed like was destined to follow the same path as their father; a made man. As the years went on, Victor's heat subsided and his focus shifted from the life, to family. He married early at the age of twenty six and continued to run numbers for mobsters in his local area. Lawrence Fara, Victor's father, was a rising star in the Detroit Partnership. Lawrence, also known as “Larry the Lance,” gained considerable standing in the underworld when he coordinated the murder of Pete "Petey Scars" Scavo who was believed to be a government witness at the time. The murder proved to be the catalyst to cement Lawrence's rise to captain in the Detroit crime family. It is unknown how Victor came to be one of the driving forces in the Los Santos underworld, but it had something to do with his brother Joseph Fara, who was a high ranking member in Richard Lopiano's Detroit sponsored land grab. But most clues lead back to one root; Victor Fara was sent to settle an internal beef and fix the ongoing chaos.
Christopher Balsimo and Victor Fara, Atlantic Avenue (Apr. 2015):
V. FARA: If you step up to him that's gonna be the last time you eat with two hands. I'll be honest with you, I don't like the guy either and I don't fucking trust him.
C. BALSIMO: Neither do I.
V. FARA: But his name warrants some fucking respect, you can't walk over him like you can with a normal guy. He's connected with all the right people and guess what? You ain't.
C. BALSIMO: Right.
V. FARA: So when it comes down to him you shut your fucking mouth and you don't say anything. Being a man doesn't mean you have to do what we do for a living, if you walked away from me now, I'd respect you. I'd respect you because you were man enough to understand that this isn't the life you wanna live. I know I talk a lot but I say things for a reason.
C. BALSIMO: I think you worry too much Vic, but I understand you.
V. FARA: It's for your survival more than anything. I might not know how L.S works but the game is fucking universal.
After Lopiano's demise at the hands of Los Santos' New York faction, Joseph assimilated with the locals and sometime in early 2015 Victor Fara made the transition over. Fara rose through the ranks of his brother's crew and ascended to the throne after Joe Fara's 2016 arrest. Victor operated with relative obscurity until Senator Appelo’s organized crime hearings in 2017, where he was mentioned by name by former protege Michael Aquino, which was followed by indictments.
The release doesn't come to a surprise. The botched case by prosecutors was under intense scrutiny after the government was found to have mishandled the investigation and illegally wiretapped conversations between Victor and Joseph Fara. With Victor Fara released and his former counterparts still behind bars, one can speculate that he will be the highest ranking member of the organization on the outside.
