Marco Riz, center, appears in Kent County District Court yesterday. Riz faces charges of kidnapping, carjacking, assault with a dangerous weapon and first-degree robbery.

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The Providence Journal / Gretchen Ertl

WARWICK — The man accused of carjacking, kidnapping and raping a woman Sunday was arraigned for the second time yesterday –– a day after he was allegedly assaulted by two fellow inmates.

Marco Riz, 26, was arraigned in Kent County District Court yesterday afternoon on charges of kidnapping, carjacking, assault with a dangerous weapon and first-degree robbery. On Monday, he was arraigned in Providence on two charges of first-degree sexual assault.

He is being held without bail on all counts.

Before his Monday arraignment, Riz was pushed and kicked by two inmates who were in custody with him at the Adult Correctional Institutions’ Intake Center, awaiting their own court appearances, according to Tracey Poole, spokeswoman for the state Department of Corrections. It was captured on video, and the two inmates face departmental discipline on assault charges. Riz did not require any outside medical treatment, Poole said.

The department will now evaluate whether Riz needs protective custody. “That’s something that we don’t do unless we really have to,” Poole said.

The police allege that Riz, 26, kidnapped a 30-year-old woman June 8 as she sat in the passenger seat of an idling vehicle, waiting for her mother in the parking lot of a grocery store on Quaker Lane in Warwick.

Riz entered the vehicle, according to the police, robbed the woman and then drove her to Roger Williams Park, in Providence, where he allegedly raped her.

According to Michael Gilhooly, spokesman for the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Riz is in the country illegally from Guatemala and had been ordered removed from the United States in July 2006. Riz disappeared after the order and members of the ICE fugitive unit in Rhode Island were actively seeking him, Gilhooly said, when they received the call about the crime. Gilhooly said that members of his office were involved in Riz’s arrest last week. If Riz is released from state custody for any reason, he will be immediately transferred to ICE custody to face the immigration charges.

In court yesterday, Riz stood flanked by two officers, an interpreter and his public defender. Associate Justice Elaine Bucci also issued a no-contact order on behalf of the alleged victim. Bucci told Riz that under no circumstances could he contact her.

“Not by telephone, not by mail, not directly nor indirectly through third parties,” she said.

If he were to violate the terms of the order, she said, speaking to Riz’s interpreter, “he’ll be in a lot more trouble than he’s already in.”

Riz’s next scheduled court date is June 30, when the charges from Providence and Warwick will be consolidated.

bjeffers@projo.com