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What if You were the Character Who was Offered Stolen Cocaine?
Fiction that brings us face-to-face with character dilemmas makes us ask tough questions — while causing chills to run up and down our spines.
Poor Arturo. As a kid he joined the Victor Boyz, a little known gang in Los Angeles’ San Fernando Valley while his dad worked construction. His friends Angel and a girl, Lil’ Jo, saw the gang as a road to riches and power while he saw it more as a collection of friends who banded together.
He worked alongside his dad and learned construction but growing into the wise and loyal man he became, he’d stick around the Victor Boyz. He liked Angel’s vision — hey, the gang could run some different businesses and profit from it. Angel was a small-time entrepreneur who wanted to open a string of legal marijuana dispensaries and hired Arturo and some of the other Victor Boyz to fix up his home as a marijuana grow house. Cool. Done.
But Arturo didn’t realize how much his friend wanted to become a big-time drug lord. That’s where the power was , as Angel saw it — and that’s where the dilemma lay. The mob was muscling into Angel’s vision of the dispensaries and hired the small-time gang-banger who had ties in Mexico and South America to get a shipment of cocaine into Los Angeles.
Legal pot was fine, but the lure of big bucks — into the…
