A crime-prone teenager — who became a poster boy for bail reform when prosecutors dropped a 2015 robbery charge against him — was wanted by cops yet again on Monday, sources said.
Pedro Hernandez, who was freed on June 3 when the charges in his robbery case were dropped, was wanted on reckless driving charges for the second time since his release, according to law enforcement sources.
Police in the 46th Precinct Station house were looking for Hernandez, 19, on Monday night, sources said.
It was his second reckless driving incident since his June 3 release.
Hernandez was busted on June 8 for reversing his car against traffic and blowing through several stop signs in a bid to evade Bronx cops.
In that case, Hernandez pleaded not guilty to charges of reckless driving and operating a motor vehicle without a license.
He was briefly sent back to Rikers Island due to a failure to appear in a Yonkers court on a completely separate charge.
In 2016, Hernandez was charged with shooting a fellow teen in a botched hold-up at a Bronx bodega and spent more than a year on Rikers Island in lieu of six-figure bail when he refused to take a plea deal.
The Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights nonprofit eventually posted Hernandez’s $100,000 bail, and the charges against him were eventually dropped when a key witness refused to testify and allegations of misconduct were levied against two detectives on the case.
That saga led activists to hold up Hernandez as Exhibit A in their push for bail reform, but it was far from his only brush with the law.
A separate 2015 robbery case was dropped just last week after Hernandez made good on a deal with prosecutors to complete a semester in college.
In December 2018, Hernandez missed out on an opportunity to meet President Obama at an RFK foundation gala when he was arrested for allegedly driving a stolen BMW in The Bronx without a license.
And in April, Hernandez was allegedly among a group that slashed a man in The Bronx while trying to rob him of his Gucci watch and gold chain, according to court filings.
Both the December and April cases are ongoing.
