UPDATE: This article was updated Friday, April 9, 2021, to reflect that James Lapin of Ormond Beach was acquitted of the federal charges brought against him last year. The new story as well as the original, published in June 2020, are below.

ORLANDO, Fla. — An Ormond Beach man was acquitted by a federal jury last month after he was accused of threatening U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in December 2019 and January 2020 voicemails.

James Lapin, 35, left five voicemails at Pelosi's Washington, D.C. office from December 19, 2019 to January 16. 2020, federal officials alleged.

“You are going to hang for treason,” Lapin said in his final message, according to federal court records.

A grand jury in June 2020 accused him of threatening to “assault and murder” a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Florida.

Lapin went on trial in Orlando on March 9, 2021.

A jury on March 11, 2021 found him not guilty of the charge of "making a true threat with intent to impede, intimidate, or retaliate against a federal official engaged in the performance of official duties,” records show.

The jury that day also found him not guilty of “knowingly transmitting a threat in interstate commerce,” according to federal records.

Also that day, U.S. District Judge Roy B. Dalton, Jr. signed a one-page order declaring Lapin had been acquitted. Then the case was terminated.

ORIGINAL STORY:

ORLANDO, Fla. - An Ormond Beach man was indicted by a federal grand jury on two charges of threatening to kill an unidentified member of the U.S. House of Representatives in December.

James Lapin, 34, faces as much as 10 years in federal prison if convicted of the charges, according to U. S. Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez for the Middle District of Florida.

According to the indictment, Lapin sent a "communication" to the Congress member's D.C. office on December 20, 2019.

The message said the official should wear a bulletproof vest and would die.

The grand jury in Orlando on Wednesday indicted Lapin on two counts of "threatening to assault and murder an elected member of the United States House of Representatives."

The U.S. Attorney's Office announced the charges Thursday.

Records did not show Lapin was taken into custody.

The four-page indictment was signed by Lopez and Assistant U.S. Attorney Roger B Handberg, chief of the Orlando division.

The United States Capitol Police, with assistance from the Ormond Beach Police Department and the United States Marshals Service, investigated the case.