By JIM BUTLER

This time Arion Ryan is likely to be in custody a while.

Ryan, 41, of Pineville is jailed under $2 million bond. His most-recent previous arrest was in July, a short stay on a theft charge.

His October 23 charges include second-degree rape, simple kidnapping and drug use in the presence of a minor.

Authorities have released no information regarding the allegations.

Second-degree was formerly called forcible rape. It is defined as taking place when the victim is incapacitated after knowingly administered a substance by the accused and/or when the alleged victim is between 13 and 16 years of age.

Penalty for the crime is five to forty years at hard labor, with no parole, probation or suspension of sentence possible.

Ryan’s current charges are the latest in a string going back at least eight years in Rapides records.

The record before the theft case this summer:

July 2025 – domestic abuse battery strangulation, domestic abuse assault;

July 2025 (two days earlier than above) –  trespass, disturbing peace;

January 2025 – assault, battery, domestic abuse battery, contempt;

April 2024 – fugitive;

August 2023 – aggravated assault, battery, contempt;

August 2022 – domestic abuse battery, aggravated battery, false imprisonment;

November 2021 – felony possession, fugitive two counts, contempt four counts;

June 2018 – burglary three counts, criminal conspiracy three counts.

Readily available online records do not reflect disposition of the cases.

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