A British male model who taunted police by posting photographs of his luxury life online while on the run from justice has been arrested in Bali.

Terrence David Murrell, who was previously convicted of a role in a $3.5 million steroid importation operation in the UK, was caught by Indonesian Immigration officials on the weekend at his Kerobokan hotel.

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He is now locked up in Immigration detention and is about to be handed to Bali police who want to investigate at least 20 pornographic films allegedly found on his mobile phone featuring himself and animals such as dogs and fish.

Police also want to investigate medicines found in his room.

Murrell will be handed over to Bali police for investigation. Credit: Facebook

Murrell, who has posted images of himself online since he fled London for Bali earlier this year, was today the star of a press conference where Indonesian authorities paraded him to announce his arrest.

He had been due to be sentenced in the UK in October last year for his role in the steroid racket which was importing steroids from China and Hong Kong to the UK when he fled to Bali.

And while he lived it up on the holiday island, a court in the UK sentenced him to 37 months jail in his absence.

Murrell had been taunting police online. Credit: 7NEWS

The judge at the time reportedly told the court Murrell was “living in the lap of luxury”.

It was alleged that Murrell had made about $380,000 from the drug enterprise.

On his Instagram profile, from which he posted pictures of himself in Bali, Murrell described himself as a “muscle/fitness model/icon and said he was “in the newspapers for being a bad boy”.

In one post, with two other men, he captioned it: “The baddest men in Bali.”

Murrell was convicted for his role in the steroid racket which was importing steroids from China and Hong Kong to the UK. Credit: 7NEWS

But on the weekend the law finally caught up with the self-described bad man.

His arrest came, it seems, after a tip-off from the community and on the weekend Immigration officers went to his address in Kerobokan.

“There we found a man that could not show his passport. But we have monitored him for a few days and finally we found his passport among his clothes. He has apparently overstayed for 151 days,” Amran Aris, the Ngurah Rai Immigration office chief said.

“When we checked his room we also found a bong and controlled medications.

Police want to investigate at least 20 pornographic films allegedly found on his mobile phone featuring himself and animals such as dogs and fish. Credit: Facebook

“After we checked the mobile phone we also found pornographic films, the content of which is played by him. We saw that based on his tattoos.

“He allegedly had a sexual deviation as in the video there are sex between him and a man, with a woman as well, also him with animals, dog and fish,” Amran said.

Tests on Murrell’s urine had allegedly been positive to morphine.

Amran said that as officers had found evidence of alleged criminal activity, in addition to the visa overstay, they had handed him over to police for further investigation.

A court in the UK sentenced him to 37 months jail in his absence. Credit: 7NEWS

“As we saw other criminal elements, so we decided to hand him over to police. That’s because he allegedly used drugs and also the pornographic video.”

Under Indonesian law, those convicted of making pornography face a maximum 12-year sentence.

He could also be charged under electronic information and technology laws.

Authorities said Murrell entered Indonesia on January 31 this year on a 30-day tourist visa.

Murrell is held in Immigration detention and will later be transferred to a police station holding cell.