By Bill Lindelof
blindelof@sacbee.com
Sacramento police have arrested a man on suspicion of stalking a woman on light rail to her apartment.
Manuel Ayala (left), 33, a registered sex offender with an ankle monitor, was arrested on suspicion of stalking and prowling, police said.
Police said the woman reported that she had been followed home from light rail early last week by a stranger. Officers set up an undercover operation later in the week, riding home with the woman on light rail.
During the undercover surveillance, officers said the same stranger who allegedly had stalked the woman earlier, got on the train when she did at the Archives light rail station at 11th and O streets downtown. He exited the train when she did at the 23rd and R streets station.
Officers said the stranger then trailed her home. Police said the man walked past the woman's apartment, then ducked into an adjoining yard.
Police said the stranger hid in the backyard of the home just east of the woman's ground floor apartment.
He tried to flee over a back fence as uniformed Regional Transit officers searched the yard, police said. He was promptly met by an officer waiting on the other side.
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