By JIM BUTLER

Bad news, good news.

The bad for Christopher Mayeaux is he’s been arrested again.

The good, for someone, is he didn’t try to burn anything down.

Mayeaux, 37, of Pineville was booked Tuesday on charges of aggravated battery and criminal trespass. His arrests record includes two alleged instances of arson.

The most notable of those, it is recalled, was allegedly attempting to burn a car dealership office he had burglarized in February 2019. First, it was charged, he stole 100 sets of keys and began fitting them in vehicles on the MacArthur Drive lot.

Ultimately he drove away five, parking four one at a time a short distance away, then starting the fire and escaping in the fifth vehicle.

Not long thereafter he got into a squabble at a nearby hotel. When officers arrived he fled in the allegedly stolen ride and was captured a few blocks away, tasered when he resisted.

The record shows a busy 2019 for the suspect. In June he was charged with disturbing the peace, in September with narcotics possession, in November with contempt and trespassing and in December with two possession counts.

As the calendar flipped to a new decade Mayeaux, like many in Pandemic Year 1, had tough going in isolation times.

There were arrests in March, possession, contempt 4 counts; April, arson, possession, contraband penal facility; November, contempt 5 counts; December, possession, burglary.

He was not booked again, the record shows, until November 2021, on 9 contempt counts. It was another two years before booking last

November on possession and contempt charges.