Permanent detention or restraint

  1. Law
  2. Arkansas Code
  3. Criminal Offenses
  4. Offenses Against the Person
  5. Kidnapping and Related Offenses
  6. Permanent detention or restraint

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  1. (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. (1) Without ever releasing the other person; or

    2. (2) Without ever returning the other person to the person or institution from whose lawful custody the other person was taken.

  2. (b)

    1. (1) Permanent detention or restraint is a Class B felony.

    2. (2) However, permanent detention or restraint is a Class D felony if the person detained or restrained is the child of the defendant.


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