Cartels Control Tribal Lands in California, Grow Drugs and Impose Narco-Slavery

Sheriff Matt Kendall estimates up to 80 percent of illicit cannabis in Mendocino County is harvested on the Round Valley floor.

John Fredricks/The Epoch Times, Courtesy of the Mendocino County Sheriff's Department

COVELO, Calif.—Driving up the steep and windy road from his station in Ukiah, Mendocino County Sheriff Matt Kendall stops his pickup at a pullout overlooking California’s Round Valley.

“It’s where the trouble begins and never ends,” he told The Epoch Times.