Josef

Background

Josef is a Russian immigrant living in Blaine County, voiced by Sergey Nagorny. He is fanatically patriotic about America, yet he speaks almost no English and knows little about the country, sometimes shouting British or French slogans by mistake. Despite being an immigrant himself, he hates Mexican immigrants. With his friend Joe, whom he met online, he runs the Civil Border Patrol, a vigilante group that "arrests" people it assumes are illegal immigrants. Most of their targets are actually legal Hispanic residents. He is married to Janet, owner of the Yellow Jack Inn, which is apparently how he got his citizenship. He drives a Park Ranger and carries a Stun Gun.

Events of Grand Theft Auto V

• Trevor Philips Industries: Josef is in a bar fight at the Yellow Jack Inn when Trevor knocks out his opponent. Trevor wants him banned, but Janet reveals that Josef is her husband.
• An American Welcome: Joe and Josef recruit Trevor for the Civil Border Patrol, and he goes along for the money.
• Minute Man Blues: Trevor runs into Manuel, a man the patrol arrested whose family has lived in San Andreas for two hundred years. Ashamed, Trevor tracks the pair to the Donkey Punch Family Farm near Paleto Bay. Josef fights back with a Sawn-Off Shotgun but is killed, and Joe dies soon after.

Trivia

• Killing Josef with the Stun Gun is a gold medal requirement in Minute Man Blues.
• His only English phrases are "Go car, go now!" and "Go, go, fucker, go!"