 Nine years after a botched robbery in Ludendorff , North Yankton , former bank robber Michael Townley lives under witness protection with his family in Los Santos , San Andreas , under the alias Michael De Santa . He meets and befriends <unk> Franklin Clinton when the latter attempts to fraudulently repossess his son 's car on behalf of a corrupt Armenian car salesman . When Michael discovers his wife Amanda has been sleeping with her tennis coach , he chases the coach to a mansion and destroys it out of anger . The mansion 's owner turns out to be the girlfriend of Mexican drug lord Martin Madrazo , who demands compensation under the threat of further violence . Michael goes back into a life of crime to obtain the money and enlists Franklin as an accomplice . Together , they perform a jewellery shop heist to help pay the debt . Michael 's sole surviving partner in the Ludendorff robbery , Trevor Philips , hears of the jewellery heist and realises that it was Michael 's handiwork . The two reunite after Trevor tracks Michael down in Los Santos . 
