Ark. Code § 5-11-106

Current with legislation from 2024 effective through May 3, 2024.
Section 5-11-106 - Permanent detention or restraint
(a) A person commits the offense of permanent detention or restraint if, without consent and without lawful authority, the person restrains a person with the purpose of holding or concealing the other person:
(1) Without ever releasing the other person; or
(2) Without ever returning the other person to the person or institution from whose lawful custody the other person was taken.
(b)
(1) Permanent detention or restraint is a Class B felony.
(2) However, permanent detention or restraint is a Class D felony if the person detained or restrained is the child of the defendant.

Ark. Code § 5-11-106

Acts 1975, No. 280, § 1706, as added by Acts 1977, No. 360, § 6; A.S.A. 1947, § 41-1706.