"Authorities in Liberty, a small
town in southwest Mississippi near the Louisiana border, said Merino wouldn't
leave the pregnant Spears and her fianc?e, Casey Aldridge, alone. Merino denied
the accusations in a phone interview Wednesday with The Associated Press. He
said that he was about 200 feet (60 meters) away from the couple using a long
lens when he was arrested at a gas station....Merino said he had little luck
taking pictures of the couple and was preparing to leave the area...."The
one picture I got was kind of by luck," he said. "I got lucky when I
saw them at Wal-Mart when I was buying deodorant."