In the 1960s and early 1970s,
large amounts of
heroin had been
trafficked into the United States from France, who refined opium obtained from Turkey into the addictive, potentially deadly drug.
Interstate I - 95 winds through South Carolina, and has earned a reputation since the 1980's for being one of the country's
largest drug
trafficking traffic stop corridors, funneling marijuana, cocaine, and
heroin from Cuba through Florida and into the Northeast.