Heroin

Monterey County's untold story of drugs, migrants, and the American Dream.

By Anne Gfeller

Thursday, July 23, 1992

Sometimes being successful in America means breaking the law. And for a small percentage of migrant workers and others from Mexico, that means making a dangerous and illicit journey to the north every spring, trafficking heroin to their seasonal homes in the San Joaquin and Salinas Valleys to pay rent.

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