Former top broadcaster Alan Jones has been taken to Day Street police station in Sydney for processing after he was arrested this morning over alleged indecent assault and sexual touching offences spanning two decades.
Police arrested Jones, 83, at his Circular Quay home this morning as they carried out a search warrant.
In March 2024, State Crime Command’s Child Abuse Squad established Strike Force Bonnefin to investigate a number of alleged indecent assaults and sexual touching incidents between 2001 and 2019.
Close to a dozen detectives have been seen coming and going from Jones’ luxury home during the execution of the search warrant this morning.
Jones left his home in the back of an unmarked police car shortly before 11.30am AEDT.
Investigators are expected to speak on the arrest later today.
The Herald and the Age newspapers in recent months published allegations from a number of young men that they had been indecently assaulted by Jones.
Jones has strenuously denied all allegations of indecent assault made against him, and 9News is not suggesting Jones has been arrested in relation to those claims.
The broadcaster, who retired from radio in 2020 and from television in 2021, was one of the most popular and influential in the industry.
NSW Police Commissioner Karen Webb, while declining to address the details directly, said earlier today that the arrest was the result of ”a very long, thorough, protracted investigation”.
“There’s no such thing as a matter that’s too old to be investigated,” she said.
“So what I say to victims is that there is no better time to come forward than now, and you will be listened to, and we will take your matter seriously.”
