re: What was that about open carry and Pineville water park???

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Ortego was booked into the Rapides Parish Detention Center, charged with unlawful presence of a violent sexual predator and failure to register as sex offender. Related story:Trooper: Combat trafficking by staying involved in kids' lives Related story: The 'dark underworld business' of sex trafficking in Louisiana Ortego pleaded guilty in March 1994 to one count of attempted aggravated rape, making him a Tier 3 sex offender, according to Rapides Parish Clerk of Court and Louisiana State Police records. He was sentenced to serve 10 years at hard labor. In 2012, he was arrested on a charge of failure to register as a sex offender, which is a felony. But the charge was reduced to a misdemeanor count of having no driver's license in his possession after he pleaded guilty, according to clerk of court records. He was sentenced to serve five days in parish prison with credit for time served. In 2014, he pleaded no contest in Rapides Parish to failure to register as a sex offender after two arrests — one in April 2012 and one in July 2013 — on that same charge. He was sentenced to serve two years at hard labor.

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