NC fentanyl trafficker gets 12-year federal prison sentence

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RALEIGH, N.C. (WBTW) — A Lumberton man will spend the next 12 years in prison after pleading guilty in May to drug trafficking charges.

Charlton Townsend, 29, was selling crack cocaine and fentanyl out of his Fairmont home when authorities raided it in March 2022 after a series of complaints. Police used a confidential informant to make a controlled purchase of fentanyl.

Townsend grew verbally combative with officers when they arrived at his home. Prior to being secured, they found a loaded 9-millimeter semiautomatic handgun on the ground next to him. Evidence collected from a search warrant yielded cocaine base, cocaine, fentanyl, a sawed-off shotgun, a stolen AR-style pistol, a .40 caliber semiautomatic firearm and more than $6,000 in cash.

U.S. District Court Judge James C. Denver III sentenced Townsend to 150 months in prison. The Fairmont Police Department investigated alongside the Robeson County Sheriff’s Office and U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

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Adam Benson

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