Cop stops briefing to track subject

LAGUNA HILLS, Calif., Nov. 13 (UPI) -- A California sheriff's spokesman excused himself from a news briefing to jot down a license plate number after he spotted a person of interest in a rape case.

Orange County sheriff's spokesman Jim Amormino was briefing reporters at the Laguna Hills, Calif., condominium complex where an alleged rape had taken place when he noticed a light-colored Ford Explorer -- a car mentioned by witnesses as being driven by the man accused of the rape -- driving around the parking lot, the Los Angeles Times reported Tuesday.

Deputies tracked the man to his home and he was being questioned Tuesday. Amormino said the man is being treated as a person of interest and has not been arrested, but there is no doubt that he is the man involved in the incident.

"If it turns out to be an actual rape and he turns out to be a suspect, all I can say is: Sometimes people do return" to the scene of the crime, Amormino said. "We have to iron out all the details, but it appears that's what he was doing."