A man police suspect directed sexual comments to young girls at department stores in Grapevine and Plano was arrested in Irving Friday.
Police told NBC 5 that 38-year-old Kenneth Dewayne Roblez was arrested by the Irving police and members of the U.S. Marshals Service after a short chase.
Roblez was arrested Friday afternoon for failure to register as a sex offender and for a parole violation for indecency with a child.
Police said he is a suspect in several other child-related sexual offenses in multiple North Texas cities. He was booked into the Irving Jail and is expected to be later transferred to the Dallas County Jail.
According to witnesses, a man at a Grapevine Target store "made a lewd comment to a 9-year-old girl about assaulting her" and, moments later, "propositioned another child's mother about sex acts with her 11-year-old daughter" Sunday.
The man was seen on surveillance video recorded by the store's cameras and was later identified by police as Roblez. In a joint effort, police in Grapevine, Irving and Dallas conducted an investigation with the Texas Attorney General's Office and the North Texas Fugitive Task Force to locate and arrest Roblez.
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Plano police received similar reports Sept. 23 at a Walmart and Sept. 23 and 30 at Target stores. A police spokesman said they think Roblez was the man involved in each report.
It is not known if Roblez has an attorney.
