Original URL: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/06/23/phone_hack_arrest/
Phone hack police make new arrest
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Posted in Law, 23rd June 2011 10:20 GMT
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Metropolitan police officers working for Operating Weeting have arrested a woman in West Yorkshire.
The investigation into alleged voicemail hacking by the News of the World was reopened earlier this year [1] after the Met said it received significant new information.
The 39-year-old woman was arrested at a residential address in West Yorkshire at 6.55 this morning. She is being interviewed at a nearby police station on suspicion of conspiring to intercept communications, contrary to Section 1 (1) of the Criminal Law Act 1977.
The Met statement [2] said it would be inappropriate to comment further at this stage.
The Guardian reports she is not a reporter.
The original investigation led to prison sentences for two men [3] found guilty of intercepting voicemails. ®