I ran into Lentoe & "Blacky" (his spelling) yesterday
Correction on his cliq, it's 'TKS" for "Lennox tokers". So far the Locos are silent, they're busy running car washes to raise $$ for a dead homie.
It's not about drugs, for now. These guys just moved here and are representing their "vario", if they moved in and didn't represent... they'd be 'hood hoppers' and get their sphincters kicked anyway.
Once established, they can sell narcs, tax merchants for protection... recruit, grow.
..and just think, there's a entire sub culture of these folks who, for generations, have done the exact same things just because it's what they do. Both these guys fathers, grand fathers, and great grandfathers were cholos & zoot suiters.... these kids could read & write graffiti before English.