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An Essex County man accused of exchanging sexually explicit images with an underage teen was charged with statutory rape in North Carolina, authorities said.
Jonathan Edward Trumble, 39, of Cedar Grove has been held in the Iredell County Detention Center in Statesville, NC, since being extradited from New Jersey on June 11.
Trumble had been free pending trial in the Essex County case when a grand jury in North Carolina returned an indictment charging him with sexually assaulting a child there.
Iredell County Sheriff Darren Campbell said detectives from his Special Victims Unit began investigating inappropriate messages sent from Cedar Grove to a 13-year-old victim in March 2019.
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