ASHEVILLE, N.C. – A TN. man convicted in a 2020 undercover drug sting will spend more than a decade behind bars. A judge sentenced James Julius Lumpkin, Thursday, to 13 years in prison in connection to a multi agency drug trafficing investigation, in which the U.S. Marshals Service Carolinas Regional Fugitive Task Force learned that Lumpkin was in Jackson County and had multiple outstanding warrants in Georgia for trafficking narcotics. A team of federal and local law enforcement arrested Lumpkin while he was sitting in his van at a motel in Cullowhee. He is currently in federal custody. The U.S. Marshals Service Carolinas Regional Fugitive Task Force, the DEA’s Asheville Post of Duty and the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office for the investigation of this case.
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