Baxter County man arrested after trying to arrange to meet underage girls to marry them

A Baxter County man has been arrested after he was trying to set up a meeting with underage girls so he could marry them. What he didn’t know is he was actually chatting online with members of a biker’s group that poses as children online to catch predators and then turns them over to law enforcement. Forty-five-year-old Kenny Ray Slack, who has a Calico Rock address, but lives in southern Baxter County, is facing three felony charges.According to the probable cause affidavit from the Baxter County Sheriff’s Office, deputies were called to Slack’s residence by a member of the Bikers Against Predators, a group out of Indiana. He told the responding deputies Slack had been sending sexually explicit messages to whom he believe to be a 13-year-old female and had recently started talking to whom he believed to be the 10-year-old sister of the 13-year-old.

The biker was traveling through Arkansas and contacted Slack about communicating with the juveniles through Facebook. He tried to get Slack to meet him, but he didn’t show up. So the biker went to Slack’s residence. While the Biker was audio and video recording, Slack admitted to communicating with the juveniles, but said he never intended to pick them up.

The investigation revealed Slack had plans to take the juveniles shopping, he asked them what kind of gold rings they wanted, planned on driving to Indiana to pick them up, marry them and bring them back to Baxter County so they could be a happy family. He said they could all share a bed. He also made sexual advances towards the juveniles.

The decoy accounts made it clear what the girl’s ages were. Detectives made contact with Slack who admitted he engaged with the decoy juvenile accounts on Facebook.

Slack is facing three felony counts of sexual solicitation of a minor. He is free after posting $50,000 bond.

PREVIOUS CONVICTIONS

Slack has four previous felony convictions in Arkansas, all in Van Buren County.

In 1996, he was found guilty of negligent homicide and underage driving under the influence.

In 2012, Slack was charged with two counts of aggravated assault, second degree battery, resisting arrest and violation of a no contact order. As part of a plea deal, he was given 60 months in the Arkansas Department of Corrections, with 12 months suspended imposition of sentence.

Slack was arrested in 2014 on charges of first degree assault and first degree criminal mischief. He received one year of supervised probation as part of a plea deal in that case.

In 2016, Slack picked up charges of possession of drug paraphernalia and equipment violation following a traffic stop. He received a 24 month suspended imposition of sentence.

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