Bail-flap teen held

A BRONX TEEN who became a cause célèbre for critics of the city’s bail system found himself behind bars early Tuesday after he was arrested for driving with a suspended license, authorities said.

Cops pulled over 18-year-old Pedro Hernandez’s BMW near the corner of Audubon Ave. and W. 175th St. in Washington Heights about 1:45 a.m. after the teen was spotted making an illegal U-turn, officials said.

When the officers ran his license, they learned it was suspended and took him into custody.

Hernandez was locked up for a year on Rikers Island after being arrested for a 2015 shooting in which a 15-year-old boy was hit in the ankle. He maintained his innocence, but was unable to pay his $100 bail.

The teen was finally released from Rikers on July 27 after the nonprofit Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights group put up his bail. In September, the charges against Hernandez were dropped after a key witness stopped cooperating and the victim couldn’t identify who who shot him. Hernandez is still facing charges in an unrelated robbery.

Sources said he has gang ties and a substantial criminal record, though four of his seven arrests since 2014 were dropped.

He is facing charges of driving on a suspended license and a violation for the illegal U-turn.