He sold drugs to his own community; now he fights for redemption

From the time they were teens, James Cross and his twin brother, Gerald, robbed drug dealers in the the Twin Cities and drove the drugs up to reservations in northern Minnesota to sell them.

Native American by birth, but adopted by a white family in south Minneapolis, the brothers were popular in certain circles during those trips because they would use the meth, opioid pain pills or weed they were selling alongside their customers.

https://www.mprnews.org/story/2016/04/18/opioid-profiles-james-cross?fbclid=IwAR1Lzf2C_siYJbnKK1uZZ2mbLt6mkQEGIgf4gI8LspXxqGWu7Z9fhntd6aM