A Brighton man who local police describe as “very familiar” to them has been charged for alleged “peeping Tom” stalking in what police say are his normal neighborhood haunts.

The Boston Police say that they arrested Francis Gomez, 36, in Brighton Wednesday night for two incidents of “peeping in windows” at residences on Donnybrook Road and Beechcroft Street, both in Brighton. He is scheduled for arraignment in municipal court in Brighton.

A woman living on Donnybrook Road called police last Thursday to report that several nights before, on March 17, she saw a man “walking back and forth, outside her residence, staring at her window” for a period of time around 2:30 a.m.

His behavior, she told a detective, scared her so much that she “immediately got onto the floor because she was terrified of being seen by this suspect” when he made his way up to her porch, according to the police report of the incident.

The woman and her housemate told police that the man, who they said was wearing a sweatshirt with the hood wrapped tightly around his head, walked up to the porch and they could hear “the outside doorknob jiggling,” according to the report.

Police canvassed the area and came up with a video recorded from a Blink security camera installed on a nearby home. They showed a still of a man roughly matching the alleged victim’s description to her and she agreed that was the man she had seen.

Police say the still was of a man they knew to be Gomez, who they wrote in their report has “exhibited this type of behavior in the past on numerous occasions” and has a history of breaking and entering, or attempting to do so.

Another similar alleged incident occurred the same night, this time on Beechcroft, where a woman reported a man walking around her house with a flashlight and looking into her windows.

She told police he started with her downstairs kitchen window before making his way around to her bedroom window, after which she called police. When police arrived, they found no suspect “but did find a plastic chair in the driveway directly in front of the victim’s window” which the victim said did not belong to her.

Police were also able to recover video from the Beechcroft Street neighborhood.

This is a developing story.