CRIME & COURTS

Flores faces new charge for fleeing Des Moines

Grant Rodgers
grodgers@dmreg.com
David Flores

David Flores' attempts to escape prosecution on a charge that he beat an ex-girlfriend last September have ended in a new felony charge against him, according to online court records.

The Polk County Attorney's Office last week charged Flores, 37, with flight to avoid prosecution. Flores has told The Des Moines Register that he fled Des Moines after being charged with willful injury, domestic abuse and false imprisonment stemming from the September incident and made money selling cars in California and Arizona.

A bounty hunter found Flores in Arizona and returned him to Des Moines in May. Flores has remained in the Polk County Jail since; a trial on the domestic abuse charges is scheduled for September.

Flores has not yet entered a plea on the newest charge, court records show.

Flores served 16 years in prison after a jury found him guilty in a Des Moines bank executive's 1996 shooting death. New evidence in the case paved the way for his release.

In July, a Des Moines woman accused Flores of raping her in a lawsuit she filed against the Ankeny Police Department. Flores has not been criminally charged and denies the woman's accusation.