By Jim Clark

Police were summoned to 5 Linden Street last week as residents complained of an unwanted male occupying their backyard.

The residents of the building reportedly told police that the man, identified as Vanderlei Pereira, 38, had once lived on the first floor but no longer resided there. When asked to leave by the residents he allegedly refused and sat down in a chair in the backyard.

Police reported that they approached the man, who was apparently intoxicated, and asked him to leave the property, but he refused, saying that he was a friend of the first floor resident but was being denied entry into the apartment. Inquiries by the officers determined that Pereira was not welcome by the first floor occupant.

Pereira was eventually persuaded to leave, according to police, but returned a short time later while officers were still on the scene. The man was once again asked to leave, whereupon he began yelling, reportedly scaring neighboring children and attracting attention from other neighbors, police said.

Pereira was then taken into custody and charged with disorderly conduct.