A Fayetteville man was condemned to spend 24 years in a federal prison for a major drug trafficking conspiracy. Celestio Lefranz Harrington, a 34-year-old from Lillington, faced the stringent sentence after being found responsible for distributing significant amounts of methamphetamine, cocaine, and fentanyl, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina.
The official announcement underlines that Harrington’s activities would “flood our communities with meth, cocaine, and fentanyl that kill our children and destroy our families.” These words by U.S. Attorney Ellis Boyle underscore the government’s commitment to swiftly dismantle such networks. U.S. District Judge Richard E. Myers II made the sentencing on Wednesday, as revealed in a statement on a press release by the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
The heavy sentence arose from an operation initiated in early 2023, where detectives identified Harrington as a drug source in the Fayetteville area. He was apprehended after surveillance activities tracked him to various meetings with suppliers and addicts across state lines…