SEARSMONT, Maine — A convicted sex offender from Searsmont was arrested Monday and charged with sexually assaulting an 11-year-old child.
Glenn Reed, 67, is accused of sexually assaulting the girl in 2011. His arrest this week is the result of an ongoing investigation, according to a police report from the Waldo County Sheriff’s Office.
Reed was taken to the Waldo County Jail in Belfast, and will be held without bail until a judge can see him at his arraignment on the class A charge of gross sexual assault.
He is listed as a lifetime registrant on the Maine Sex Offender Registry for a conviction of rape. More information about that conviction was not immediately available Monday, but in 2013, Reed was convicted of unlawful sexual touching, assault and disorderly conduct and sentenced to six months in jail and one year of probation.
He was convicted after allegedly going up to a young store clerk in Belfast and telling her that he needed a hug. The young woman got out from behind the counter to give him a hug, and Reed sexually assaulted her by fondling her buttocks and grabbing at her breasts, according to a previous report in the BDN. The store’s video surveillance cameras captured Reed’s actions and police were able to find and arrest him.