So there he is, sitting on the cold curb at night, cuffed by the Fresno County sheriff’s deputies.
Yes, the man tells CNN, he’d avoided getting a new registration, not wanting to spend the money. So now the 28-year-old is looking at a ticket on top of the registration and a late fee.
Nothing comes cheap and easy for him — except for methamphetamine.
That’s the lesson he says he got at the age of 13, when his older brother, the person he looked up to the most in the world, told him to try the drug.
“And from then on, it just took control,” he says.
On the streets
The man on the curb asks CNN not to use his name or show his face — which is covered in tattoos of a violent Fresno street gang he says he joined about the time he started using meth.
He’s inked on his arms, legs and skull, too, all marks of the crew he says he has now managed to quit. He has not been in trouble with the police since 2018, determined to live a cleaner life for his two boys, aged 5 and 7.
But there’s also a sign of the thing he can’t quit — a large, leaking abscess on the inside of his left arm where he injects meth.
“When’s the last time you used?” asks Fresno County Sheriff’s Deputy Todd Burk.
“Yesterday,” the man replies. He said he’d just lost his job as a forklift driver, one of…
Source : cnn
