Glenn Salard

Courtesy: NPSO.

NATCHITOCHES, La. -- A Natchitoches man is behind bars following his arrest last week on a child rape charge, state police said Wednesday in a news release. 

Glenn L. Salard, 63, was booked into the LaSalle Corrections/Natchitoches Parish Detention Center on June 16 on a charge of first-degree rape of a juvenile. 

The state police Special Victims Unit arrested Salard after investigating a complaint about the alleged sexual abuse of a juvenile. 

Salard was arrested on a warrant issued by the Natchitoches Parish District Court. 

The investigation remains ongoing.