Sexton Cohen

Sexton Cohen (né Hardcastle) is a character role-played by bythybeard.

General Description
Sexton Cohen (né Hardcastle) served as the 8th Mayor of Los Santos. He is currently a nurse for the Los Santos Medical Group. He co-owns Plan Bee and the Nomad Detective Agency. He makes soap for Clean Getaway and candles for Ladywood Apothecary.

He was previously a Lieutenant for the Vinewood Police Department, Badge #406, and a Detective Sergeant and Shift 2 Supervisor for the Street Crimes Unit. Before that, he was a Lead Dispatch FTO for the Los Santos Police Dispatch, call-sign Delta-2. Sexton didn't believe in jailing suspects without evidence, investigating them without reasonable suspicion, or raiding them without enough probable cause. When he investigated two of Los Santos' most shadow organizations, The Stable and Yokai, he spent several months building the cases against them.

During Sexton's time as a police detective, he investigated Sabith "Bunny" Cohen as a suspected accomplice in the murder of ADA Malcador Sigilite and later as The Stable's clean face. Sexton and Bunny eventually began dating in the days leading up to her mayoral election victory. Almost ten months after their wedding, Sexton Hardcastle officially changed his government name to Sexton Cohen on May 2, 2023. Sexton often credits his wife Bunny with changing his life and inspiring him to find new purpose in Los Santos beyond law enforcement. According to Sexton, he never would have ran for Mayor of Los Santos had Bunny not convinced him.

Background Information
Born in Canada, Sexton Richard Hardcastle moved to the U.S. at a young age after his parents died. He was brought into a childhood friend's home to live there until he was 18, after his 18th birthday Sexton and his childhood friend, Kevin, both joined their local PD. Both passed academy and become patrol partners, a few years passed and both Hardcastle and Kevin were relocated to Las Ventura's PD where they climbed the ranks fast.

One night on a routine shift, Hardcastle and Kevin were dispatched to a breaking and entering. Upon arrival, they split up to cover both sides. Kevin breached from the back and Hardcastle from the front and soon after, a shot was heard coming from the back of the building. Hardcastle rushed to the back to see Kevin on the ground bleeding from a gunshot wound and no one in sight. Kevin later passed away that night and Hardcastle went into a deep spiral. After that night, Hardcastle was placed on administrative leave and upon hearing that the case on his patrol partner's murder would be closed, Hardcastle put in his transfer to the LSPD.

On arrival to Los Santos on February 4, 2021, he was put on Dispatch Duty until he would have the opportunity to become an officer again. While working Dispatch, he met Claire Everly whom at the time was dating Mina Price. After hearing how Hardcastle was an orphan, Claire decided to adopt him into their family.

Trivia

 * Served as "Kingsguard" for Mayors Andi Jones and Denzel Williams the day after they got married and had Iron Thrones outside of City Hall.
 * Investigated the shadow crime organization The Stable for about five months, and famously staked out their clean face Sabith "Bunny" Cohen's warehouse for eight hours and one whole morning before trying to stop the group from running the last of their meth out of the country. Ironically, Hardcastle wound up marrying Bunny and receiving keys to that warehouse. Bunny also turned down owning a warehouse for Nicholas Simone because of his expectation that it be kept secret from Hardcastle.
 * Eventually lost a lung due to Michael Simone's sniper attack, and got it surgically replaced with a synthetic lung from San Andreas Service.
 * After almost 10 months of marriage to Sabith Cohen, Sexton Hardcastle officially changed his government name to Sexton Cohen on May 2, 2023.
 * Sabith Cohen's mayoral term ended on June 10, 2022 as a result of her re-election loss to Mickey S. Exactly one year later, her husband Sexton Cohen's mayoral term began on June 10, 2023.