SANDPOINT — A former Sagle resident who disappeared on the eve of his trial on lewd conduct charges in 2012 pleaded not guilty Monday to bail jumping.

Stephen Robert Reiling is scheduled to be arraigned in 1st District Court on Aug. 9. He remains held at the Bonner County Jail in lieu of $1.25 million.

Reiling, 57, is accused of fleeing Idaho to avoid being prosecuted for lewd and lascivious conduct with a minor. Friends said Reiling took off because he did not believe he would receive a fair trial.

Reiling is accused of fondling the genitals of a girl in 2003, when she was between the ages of 8 and 9. The allegations didn’t surface until 2011.

Reiling is further accused of going on the lam for more than three years. He turned up in Hilo, Hawaii, in February. Reiling, who was passing himself of as Ken Starr, was implicated in a roadside sexual assault of an ex-girlfriend. He was tracked to a Starbucks coffee shop in March and arrested.

A fingerprint check upended Reiling’s subterfuge and effected his return to Idaho, according to Hawaii court records.

Reiling had secured his liberty with a $50,000 bond while he was awaiting trial, but that sum was forfeited when he disappeared. The state moved to up Reiling’s bail to $1 million after he was apprehended in Hawaii. Bail in the bail-jumping case was set at $250,000.

Reiling is scheduled to stand trial in the lewd conduct case in July.