The phrase "arrested off" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It seems to be an incorrect combination of words that may be intended to describe a situation involving arrest, but it lacks clarity and proper usage.
Example: "He was arrested off the street for loitering." (Note: "arrested off" is still awkward here.)
Alternatives: "taken into custody" or "apprehended from".
Four Bahamians arrested off Florida with more than a tonne of cocaine.
The dispute between the two countries flared up when Chinese fishermen were arrested off the Japanese-controlled Senkaku islands (or Diaoyu in Chinese) in September.
(Befitting the cinema-verite milieu, the stars, who were nonprofessionals, were arrested off the set for separate criminal offenses). Home Vision.
Police said Keepers, who was arrested off campus, was also charged with a misdemeanor for her alleged accessory role in the crime after the fact.
Alexis Freddy Mosquera-Rentería, Yarlei Bañol-Ramos and Jorge Abel Iballuen-PalaColombiancitizensn citizens, were arrested off the coast of Panama in February after a shootout with the Panamanian maritime police.
This is the standard response when a foreign citizen's Vienna Convention rights have been violated, the State Department's legal office wrote last year in a case involving seven Chinese defendants who were not advised of their consular rights when they were arrested off the coast of Bermuda and charged with smuggling.
My brother was arrested, taken off in his pyjamas to some unknown destination.
Last weekend, three mayors who are members of People's Democracy were arrested, setting off a new round of recriminations.
Those who take part in unsanctioned meetings know that they are likely to be beaten, arrested, carted off in special police buses and taken to police stations.
Scuffles break out and four protesters are arrested, bundled off to the station in the same tuk-tuks they arrived in.
He was arrested earlier this off-season in Arizona on charges of felony marijuana possession and possession of drug paraphernalia.
