ALBANY, NEW YORK – A jury voted today to acquit Cumhur Aydin, age 45, on a charge of transporting an alien. 

Aydin, of New Jersey, was indicted on January 6, 2016 on a single charge of transporting, in Franklin County, New York, an alien who had no right to be present in the United States. 

The jury voted to acquit Aydin following a three-day trial in Albany before Senior U.S. District Judge Frederick J. Scullin, Jr.