Paris Hilton. - AP (File Photo)

MALIBU, California: Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies have arrested a man accused of violating a restraining order that bars him from being within 200 yards (180 meters) of Paris Hilton or her home.

The sheriff's department says in a statement that someone called authorities Monday afternoon and reported a man standing on a beach looking into Hilton's Malibu home.

The caller recognized the man as James Rainford. He pleaded no contest to a battery charge in April after Hilton's then-boyfriend Cy Waits was attacked outside a courthouse.

Deputies who responded were met by numerous paparazzi who pointed out Rainford standing on the beach.

Rainford was arrested without incident and is being held on dollar 20,000 bail.

The arrest comes less than a week after a man convicted of trying to burglarize Hilton's home was sentenced to two years in prison.

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