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CLEMMONS — A Forsyth County man implicated in connection to a fatal heroine overdose in Clemmons five years ago recently pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter.

He was sentenced to a minimum of 84 months and a maximum of 113 months in prison with credit for time served.

According to a press release from Braxton Langston-Chapman, a public information officer with the Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office, Jonathan Lee Barfield, of Lexington, pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter and possession with intent to sale and deliver a schedule II controlled substance for his role in the incident that left Bradley Griffin dead in 2019.

“We are committed to having justice served for the voices that were silenced by this horrible epidemic,” Chief Deputy Henry Gray Jr. said.

A 2020 release from the sheriff’s office indicated that investigators responded to the scene of a narcotics related death on Farrior Drive in Clemmons on Sept. 9, 2019.

“It was determined that Bradley Griffin died of a heroin overdose,” that release said. “Continued investigation confirmed the identity of the individual who sold the heroin to Mr. Griffin.”

Barfield, who was 31 at the time, was charged with 2nd-degree murder, and was held in the Forsyth County Law Enforcement Detention Center on a 200,000 bond.

“I want to say thank you to the men and women of the Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office, and a special thank you to the District Attorney’s Office, for their tireless work on this case to bring these charges forward,” Sheriff Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr. said at the time. “I extend my heartfelt condolences to the family of Bradley Griffin, and to the families of all victims struggling with addiction. Rest assured we will do everything in our power to bring justice and to hold those responsible accountable for their actions.”