A 44-year-old Mastic man was arrested Saturday morning after an investigation found he inappropriately touched three children on separate occasions at the T.J. Maxx store in Medford, Suffolk County police said.

Jimmy Harry Valasquez Gomez was arrested in East Islip after he allegedly touched a 9-year-old girl at the store on Wednesday, according to a police news release.

An investigation by detectives found that Gomez also inappropriately touched two other children — a 7-year-old on April 21 and an 11-year-old on Sept. 25 — at the same T.J. Maxx store, according to police.

Gomez was charged with three counts of sexual abuse and three counts of endangering the welfare of a child, police said. He is due to be arraigned in Central Islip on Sunday.

Suffolk police detectives are asking anyo

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