Captives of Cannabis Part II_ Mass Murder, Migrants and Money Laundering
1st Place (2023) - 66th Annual Southern California Journalism Awards - Documentary Short Television/Film
In a three-part report for Nightly Films, Jacob Soboroff details his months-long investigation into labor trafficking in the marijuana black market. After following the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department on a raid of a grow site, Jacob looks at the recruiting website that reportedly brought the workers, all suspected trafficking victims, to California. He interviews the director of an anti-trafficking program in New York City for her expertise on what the workers told him.