PITTSFIELD, Mass. (AP) – An Otis teenager has been acquitted of dealing marijuana in a case stemming from a controversial arrest that could have landed him in jail for two years.

Kyle Sawin, 18, was found innocent Friday of three counts each of distribution of marijuana and of committing a drug violation in a drug-free school zone.

Prosecutors say Sawin was selling drugs to an undercover police officer in a Great Barrington parking lot that was located within a school zone. Selling drugs within 1,000 feet of a school carries a two-year mandatory minimum prison sentence.

One school is located about 175 paces from the parking lot; another is about a four-minute walk away, at the bottom of a hill down a side street. Both schools were closed for the summer when Sawin was arrested for selling enough marijuana to roll about three joints.

A jury deadlocked on the case when Sawin was first tried in July. District Attorney David Capeless pushed for a retrial despite opposition from some community members who said charging Sawin – who had no prior criminal record – with the school zone violation was unfair.

Sixteen others who were arrested with Sawin in last year’s parking lot drug bust are still awaiting trial.