HAROLD Crooks, the former commandant of the Island Special Constabulary Force who was being sought by the police on allegations of sexual assault, was arrested this morning at the Ocho Rios Pier in St Ann.

He is now in police custody in that parish.

The Constabulary Communications Network said their only information is that Crooks who was believed to have fled the island was held at the pier.

In March Crooks lawyer Vincent Wellesley said his client told him that he had left, and would not be returning to Jamaica, because he had no faith in the justice system.

Crooks was being sought by the police who are investigating allegations that he and another man sexually assaulted an underaged girl.

He had gone missing a day before he was scheduled to meet with investigators at the Centre for the Investigation of Sexual Offences and Child Abuse.