TOWN OF POUGHKEEPSIE – Less than a week after serving as one of the emcees for the City of Poughkeepsie’s Festival of Lights, well-known community figure Frank “Frankie” Flowers, 52, was arrested on another series of domestic violence charges. Flowers was arrested and arraigned on Wednesday on the misdemeanor charges of assault, criminal obstruction of breathing, and endangering the welfare of a child following a domestic incident near his residence on College Avenue in the Town of Poughkeepsie. The victim in this incident is believed to be the mother of his youngest child.

Flowers was remanded to the Dutchess County Jail on $5,000 cash bail, $10,000 bond, or $15,000 partially-secured bond. He was released on Friday after posting bail. As a condition of his release, Flowers has been p

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