In 1972 award-winning documentary producer Joseph Tovares is a 17-year-old high school senior in San Antonio. That fall, the international heroin merchant Fred Carrasco escapes prison in Mexico and returns home to San Antonio. His return upends the city, but it captures the imagination of a generation of young Mexican Americans...including Joseph.

Joseph spends most of the next fifty years on the east coast but returns to San Antonio. He speaks to former cops, criminal defense attorneys, reporters, everyday folks, and recovering heroin addicts, as well associates and relatives of Carrasco. Scholars provide context to better understand the story. With the help of a San Antonio-based journalist and a talented private investigator he uncovers a story that is a snapshot of San Antonio in the late 1960's and early 1970s.

The Team:

Joseph Tovares - Producer/Host

Lesley Norman - Executive

Noi Mahoney – Journalist and Consultant

Michelle Mondo –Private Investigator and Researcher