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The famed "Pregnant Man" was arrested Thursday in Phoenix on suspicion of stalking a woman with a GPS tracking device, according to court records.

Police arrested Thomas Trace Beatie after an Arizona Department of Public Safety officer stopped to help a woman who had a flat tire on a Valley freeway in September and the officer noticed a device attached to the car, according to court records.

Beatie, 40, had previously taken out an order of protection against the woman, police said, and the tracking device was activated about six months afterward, according to court documents.

The woman told police that Beatie was showing up randomly at places where she was and asking her about where she had been. The woman said she was afraid, according to court documents.

When police contacted Beatie in October, he admitted to placing the tracking device on the car when he owned it with the woman but said he had not monitored the device for a while, according to court records.

Police arrested Beatie on suspicion of stalking.

Beattie is a transgender man who hit the talk-show and tabloid circuit as the "Pregnant Man" in 2008, posing with his beard, manly chest and very pregnant belly.

Because his wife was unable to conceive and Beatie still had female reproductive organs, he became pregnant through artificial insemination.