LOCAL MAN ARRRESTED FOR LEWD ACT TOWARD CHILD

Reynaldo Flores, a 39 year old previously convicted sex offender, was arrested for public lewdness and endangering the welfare of a child.  Flores, of Middle Island, was wearing an electronic ankle band as a condition of his release after several public lewdness convictions, was charged with exposing himself to an 11 year old girl in a Border's bookstore in Bohemia.  It was Flores' seventh arrest for the same kind of crime.  A court order, issued July 12, 2001, that banned him from public libraries expired in 2002.  He has two 1996 convictions, one in Nassau and one in Suffolk, for lewd acts in public involving girls under 17.  Flores was arraigned on May 27 and was held on $25,000 bail for the May 18 charges, and $6,000 for four counts of public lewdness.  His total bail was set at $31,000.

(New York)