By JIM BUTLER

Mark DeClouet Jr. made $11,000 bail less than an hour after his arrest Friday on conspiracy and unlawful prescribing charges.

Those accusations are added to a rap sheet initiated in February 2022 when he was charged with human trafficking and offenses linked to allegedly providing drugs for sex.

DeClouet, 42, posted $218,000 bond in that case.

His alleged procurer, Kyle McCall, 24, of Boyce, was in the parish jail until April of this year when bill of information listed only two relatively minor drug charges.

In the current case DeClouet, a psychiatric nurse practitioner whose license was suspended after the 2022 arrest, has 11 criminal conspiracy counts and 11 unlawful prescribe, distribute, dispense, or assist of prescription other than by physician counts.

His 2022 arrest sent shockwaves through the addiction-treatment community in which he has been a leader in the campaign for progressive approaches to curbing the opiod abuse epidemic.

Records indicate he entered a not guilty plea as of December. A February pre-trial hearing was continued.

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