Montreal police announced Thursday afternoon that they had arrested a man who disappeared on a bicycle from the Pinel Psychiatric Institute Tuesday afternoon.

Roger Lee Desmarais, 30, was nabbed at Emilie-Gamelin Park, just outside the Berri metro station after two days on the lam.

He rode off from the institute, home to psychiatric patients who have committed criminal acts, on a blue and white Minelli bicycle in mid-afternoon Tuesday, wearing a pale blue Adidas tracksuit.

Police had been searching for him in the central part of the city, downtown and on the Plateau.

CTV Montreal learned that a woman filed a police report after Desmarais allegedly approached her as she sat in her car in the parking lot outside of the Rockland Centre Wednesday. The woman screamed loudly and no harm was done.

Desmarais has been a patient at Pinel since 2011 when he was arrested and charged with multiple counts of sexual assault.