London Police Said to Arrest Times Reporter in Hacking Case

London police probing phone hacking at News Corp.’s News of the World tabloid arrested a journalist who has worked at the Times and Evening Standard in London, a person familiar with the matter said.

The reporter is Raoul Simons, a sports editor for News Corp.’s Times newspaper, who was put on leave last year, according to the person, who declined to be identified because they aren’t authorized to speak about the case. Simons was suspended after an audio recording emerged in which the private investigator at the center of the scandal told him how to hack into mobile-phone voice mails, the person said.