James Hellraiser-Costello

James Hellraiser-Costello is a character played by IAmTheValeyard

General Description
James Hellraiser-Costello (born Jamie Annabelle Costello, November 11, 1975) is Defence Attorney who operates under the banner of Costello Consultancy. Born in a place that he can't recall he tells everyone that he was born in New York.

Father to Jeffrey Costello (deceased) and Pedro Costello.

James was formerly a bank robber and drug dealer before having his record expunged and studying law when his best friend Enzo Henrys was facing life in prison.

On November 11 2020 James Costello married Yasmin Hellraiser.

Career
At an early age James entered a life of crime mainly focusing on petty theft and assault. He became involved with Tim Maxwells crime empire at the age of 19 when he became an enforcer, collecting debts on behalf of Maxwell, and carried out stabbings and shootings. Four years later Costello was arrested after an incident where shots were fired at William Anderson and two members of his family while they were travelling home from a nightclub. At an identity parade neither of the two family members were able to identify Costello but Maxwell picked him out as the person who had fired the shots. Costello was charged with three counts of attempted murder, and was sentenced to remanded in Rikers Island. At his trial six months later he was acquitted on all charges with a not proven verdict.

Upon moving to San Andreas James took his oportunity when an large shipment of Automatic Rifles made their way into his hands. Over time he became one of the largest gun smugglers in the State, a crime for which he was never caught much to the annoyance of Sergeant Chance Noonan.

In 2020 James along with Enzo Henrys and Stephan Polinski formed the Wonder Crew. Over time they added additional members such as Herb Floyd, Chumplee 'Cornershit' Keebler, Ivy Lynn and Bubba Cooper.

After multiple arrests he began a mission to get a weapons license. After multiple tries at getting one including showing fake ID to Sheriff Mike Stone and Sam Gardner, James ran into Chance Noonan in the car park of the Crown Motel where he was residing. After showing Noonan around his apartment he asked him if Noonan would give him a weapons license. Noonan agreed for $5,000 and so James gave him the money to which Noonan sped off in his cruiser. Later on when Amelia Esposito was responding to a call at the Motel James held her at gunpoint and demanded the money back from Noonan however the demand was denied. James and the rest of the Wonder Crew sped off in a vehicle. Over the next 72 hours the SASO staked out the apartment with the aim of catching James, eventually catching him after he entered into his apartment believing he was under the radar. Upon leaving the apartment in Enzos car, SASO swooped on him in 4 cruisers and Air One. James was eventually caught on Great Ocean highway and sentenced to 90 months in prison.

After the crew believed that Cornershit had provided information to the police James, Enzo, Herb and Polinski shot him dead on the steps of Mission Row Police Department (clip) Enzo was subsequently arrested and held in prison awaiting trial. For a long time after Cornershits murder the crew were placed under investigation while Enzo provided detectives false information stating that the Cartell had carried out the murder. While Enzo was held in prison James had his record expunged after striking a deal with Chief Justice Noonab in regards to an early expungement after saving his life. Once his record was expunged James then studied for and took the bar exam becoming a Licensed Attorney in the State of San Andreas with the goal of freeing Enzo from prison. His efforts were in vain however as Enzo escaped Bolingbroke Penitentiary minutes after James became a licensed attorney. After days of staying in hiding Enzo finally met up with the rest of the Wonder Crew where it was clear that Polinski was the loose link in the chain of keeping stories straight regarding Cornershits death (clip)

James started Costello Consultancy as a way to generate large amounts of cash without suspicion. He began attempting to hire every attorney in the state in a bid to monopolize the criminal activity with the justification of "If every criminal has to use my company then my crew can move freely without concern"

Shortly after starting the company James began dating Olivia Montgomery, a recruit in the SASO. After a short time of dating and becoming engaged James would embark on a quest to get the attention of Yasmin Hellraiser. After their first meeting James attempted every way he could to get Yasmins phone number from people but nobody was able to provide it as James only knew her by a different name. Eventually James and Yasmin met again and James would try extremely hard to win her over. Eventually James knew that he had to end things with Olivia to be able to move forward with Yasmin and so he asked Olivia to meet him at the house they shared. While standing on the balcony James told Olivia that there was someone else, Olivia visibly upset and angry walked into the house where James followed. Upon seeing how her demeanour had changed he asked Olivia "is this where you shoot me" to which she replied "yes James, this is where I shoot you" and emptied a clip from a pistol into him. Leaving the house she was met with Wonder Crew member Bubba Cooper and the two engaged in a gun fight before Bubba shot her in the head. She was pronounced dead on arrival by EMT Jacob Rose.

After Polinski left town to live with his new dial-a-bride and Herb faked his death, James turned to the runners of Wonder Crew to keep things going. Austin James and Apollo Preach were brought in full time alongside James, Ivy and Bubba to keep the business dealings moving. The group opened two large warehouses which produced around $200,000 worth of narcotics each day.

Eventually inner group battles caused James to reach the decision to disband the Wonder Crew before moving onto living a quiet life.

In March 2021, after the death of his best friend Ivy, James and Bubba were visiting her memorial bench when Austin arrived in a helicopter. In the helicopter were Polinski and Herb who had returned to town. The Wonder Crew over the next few months slowly began reforming before June 2021 where business really picked up.

In June 2021, Rusty Keebler, the brother of Cornershit arrived in San Andreas to find his brother. Detective Arnom informed Rusty that his brother had passed away and was associated with a group named "Wonder Crew". From here Rusty began his own investigation into the death of his brother while feeding information to Arnom eventually leading the two to a meeting at the Los Santos racetrack. During this meeting Herb and Polinski shot down Rusty with .50 cal bullets, Rusty entered a coma and is still currently in Pillbox Medical.

In a bid to scare off Arnom from continuing his investigation, Wonder Crew began targeting his girlfriend Juliette Pierce - District Attorneys Chief of Staff. Stalking her and wearing masks, attempting to kidnap her, sending anonymous text messages and making sure that she knew was being watched. In an attempt to get closer to her James applied to work in the District Attorneys Office.

Fun Facts

 * Born with the middle name Annabelle
 * Nephew of Dolores Lombardi who insists on telling the story of his Teddy
 * Once had Amelia Esposito as a soup buddy but lost the friendship when he was arrested
 * Puts his wife Yasmin above everything else
 * Once stole Sheriff Mike Stones interceptor -View Clip-
 * Got out of a vehicle theft charge by telling Simmons about Godzilla -View Clip-