SALISBURY — A Landis man accused of statutory rape in January was acquitted Thursday in Rowan County Superior Court.
Jeffrey Alan Nunn was found not guilty on five counts of felony statutory rape of a 15-year-old, court records said.
Nunn was convicted in 2006 of four counts of felony second-degree rape and felony indecent liberties with a minor.
Initially released in 2010, according to the Department of Corrections, Nunn’s probation was revoked the following spring. He was released a second time in September 2011.
He was arrested again on Jan. 9 at the Rowan County Sheriff’s Office when he attempted, as a sex offender, to register a new address, an arrest report said. Deputies told him the time period for notification had expired.
The failure to register charge is pending.
Deputies said at the time of Nunn’s January arrest he threatened the juvenile by telling her he would “get her in trouble with her mom,” a Rowan County Sheriff’s Office report said.
The juvenile claimed the incident happened around October 2010.
Nunn’s attorney, William Trippe McKeny, said the acquittal was a product of proper due process.
“The best thing that I can say is the jury has spoken and that’s why we have this legal system in place,” McKeny said. “I think they spoke and resoundingly found my client not guilty.”