Telegraph photo by DEAN SHALHOUP Court officers help Johnny Reyes, 23, get settled at the defense table with his attorney, Michael Davidow, for his bail hearing Monday on charges accusing him of burglarizing a local residence and stealing items.

NASHUA – Superior Court Judge Jacalyn Colburn, noting Nashua resident Johnny Reyes’s quite lengthy criminal record and his alleged habit of running from police, said Monday she finds it appropriate that Reyes be held in jail on preventive detention, at least for the time being.

Already out on bail on drug-possession and criminal trespass charges stemming from his March 2 arrest in Manchester, and with a deferred prison term of four to 10 years still hanging over his head, according to a prosecutor, Reyes is now facing a felony charge of domestic violence-related burglary and a misdemeanor for resisting arrest or detention.

Reyes, 23, who has been in and out of Nashua’s Adult Drug Court, is accused of unlawfully entering a relative’s downtown Nashua apartment Sunday afternoon and stealing automotive equipment and a 55-inch TV, according to Assistant County Attorney Brett Harpster, the prosecutor.

When the relative discovered the thefts, he told police he suspected Reyes, so officers went looking for him.

A short time later, Harpster said, another relative found Reyes in a downtown barbershop-still in possession of the TV he allegedly stole.

When police arrived to take Reyes into custody, Harpster said, he tried to flee on foot, which led to the resisting arrest or detention charge.

He was booked on the charges then jailed overnight pending Monday’s arraignment, which Reyes waived in favor of a bail hearing.

Colburn, in ordering preventive detention, told Reyes she would consider setting low bail or releasing him on personal recognizance if he applied to, and was accepted into, a residential drug treatment program.

Reyes “has been given many chances to get help,” Harpster told the court, but he nevertheless continues accumulating charges.

Colburn, who knows Reyes well from his stints in Drug Court, found that if he were released from jail he would present a danger, and that preventive detention was appropriate.

She said Reyes’ frequent contact with police, telling him that “every time you interact with them, it goes poorly.”

“Then,” she added, referring to his alleged history of fleeing from police, “they have to chase you all over creation.”

Colburn set a status hearing on the new charges for April 18, when Reyes is due in court in connection with a previous case.