Ex-head of News International arrested in hacking scandal

Rebekah Brooks, who resigned Friday, is suspected of conspiring to intercept private voicemails in the scandal that has rocked Rupert Murdoch's media empire.

News Corporation Chief Executive Rupert Murdoch with Rebekah Brooks, then chief executive of News International, in a July 10 photo. Brooks resigned last week. (Olivia Harris, Reuters)

By Henry Chu Los Angeles Times

8:00 a.m. CDT, July 17, 2011

LONDON—

Rebekah Brooks, the former head of media mogul Rupert Murdoch's British operations, was arrested Sunday in connection with a spiraling phone-hacking scandal, police and media reports said.

Scotland Yard confirmed that a 43-year-old woman was arrested at noon on suspicion of conspiring to intercept private voicemails and corruption allegations. British media identified the woman as Brooks.

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