
Sweet ends up in a jail and Carl is arrested by Tenpenny and dropped in Angel Pine, Whetstone. Unluckily Sweet is wounded and Carl can't prevent them to be ambushed by the Ballas. During the gang wars against the Ballas Carl finds out, with the help of his friend and brother in law Cesar Vialpando, that Big Smoke and Ryder are part of a conspiracy with the Ballas and C.R.A.S.H. The different families are united again and they gain some victories over the Ballas. Shortly after Carl's arrival in Los Santos he and his brother Sweet start with the resurrection of the Grove Street Families. Eventually the gang falls apart and the Temple Drive Families and the Seville Boulevard Families choose their own path. On top of that the gang begins to fall behind on the gangs who earn money with the crack business. Although this becomes more difficult due to the fact that their own gang members become addicted to crack and therefore become dependent on the Ballas. The Grove Street Families are against the use of drugs and try to reduce the Ballas and their illegal business as far as possible. The gang had, between 19, lost a lot of influence due to the upcoming and rising of the crack business. It is the gang of Carl Johnson, who returns to the gang after his mother passes away during a drive-by of the Ballas, the biggest enemy of the Grove Street Families.

The Grove Street Families (also named the Orange Grove Families), named after the street 'Grove Street' where the heart of the gang is located, is the gang where it in GTA San Andreas is all about.
