Jimmy Hernandez

Background

Jimmy Hernandez is the newest officer in C.R.A.S.H., the corrupt anti-gang unit run by Frank Tenpenny and Eddie Pulaski. He joined the LSPD in 1989 and applied to C.R.A.S.H. hoping to fight gang crime, only to find himself pulled into his superiors' schemes.

Events of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas

Hernandez is in the patrol car with Tenpenny and Pulaski when they pick up CJ in In the Beginning, and he is present at several C.R.A.S.H. meetings, including Burning Desire and Gray Imports. He is clearly uneasy with what the unit does, and Pulaski treats him with contempt. Unknown to the others, he starts talking to Internal Affairs.

In High Noon, at the Las Brujas ghost town, Tenpenny accuses him of informing and knocks him out with a spade, then leaves Pulaski to make CJ dig a grave. Hernandez comes round and attacks Pulaski, who shoots him dead.

Personality

Hernandez is nervous, idealistic and out of his depth, too weak to stand up to Tenpenny openly but unwilling to go along with him forever.

Trivia

• He is voiced by Armando Riesco, who later voiced Victor Vance in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories.
• A later news report about Tenpenny's trial mentions Hernandez's disappearance.