Police say Upper Darby peeper under arrest

UPPER DARBY, Pa. (WPVI) -- Police in Upper Darby, Pa. have arrested the man they say has been peeping into the windows of an apartment complex.

Darren Brown, 25, is accused of being the peeping tom that police had spent six weeks searching for.

The incidents in the Laurel Manor apartment complex began on July 28th and the most recent incident happened Friday.

The reports were of a man wearing hardly anything except a pair of shorts and performing lewd acts while looking through somebody's window.

Brown lives in the complex, police say, and a two-time victim helped police identify him as the suspect.

"These types of individuals are creeps. So you never know what they're capable of doing. Are they going to escalate where they break in, escalate to where they steal personal garments?" said Upper Darby Police Superintendent Michael Chitwood.

Brown was walking through the apartment complex with his live-in girlfriend when he was arrested on Monday, police said. At the time of the arrest, she told police she had no idea what was going on with Brown.

Police say Brown has denied the charges.

Marcus Thomas said his wife was victimized by the same man more than a year ago in an overnight incident that happened while he was at work.

"He was at the window telling my baby's mom 'let me in, let me in," Thomas said. "He didn't have anything on but a shirt and a New York Giants hat."

He is being held on $40,000 bail.