Cops Scoop Reporter at Brangelina's House

Everyone wants to be on the Brangelina beat these days. 

A man claiming to be a freelance reporter was arrested outside Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's Hollywood Hills abode Wednesday afternoon, Los Angeles Police Department spokeswoman Officer Karen Smith told E! Online. 

The Jolie-Pitt clan, which is rumored to be expanding, was not home at the time. 

Smith said that their housekeeper called the cops at 12 p.m. after noticing a silver car blocking the entrance to the house in the 5700 block of tony Briarcliff Road. She also saw a man, who police later identified as 25-year-old Eric Ray Mitchell of Hollywood, asking passersby where Pitt's house was. 

When officers arrived at the scene, they took Mitchell into custody on a private person's arrest (like citizen's arrest) and impounded his vehicle. Smith couldn't say whether he was still in custody as of 4 p.m.

Pitt and Jolie most recently went public at the 14th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards, where the latter was nominated for her heart-tugging turn in A Mighty Heart. The 32-year-old actress went home empty-handed, but she garnered plenty of attention by sipping water all evening and donning a figure-skimming gown.

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