A Norway apartment tenant complained to a state human rights agency that her neighbor in the building sexually harassed her and his two sons intimidated her.

Janalee L. Brown said in her complaint to the Maine Human Rights Commission that a tenant in an adjacent apartment on the first floor subjected her to sexual harassment and retaliation for rejecting and complaining about his sexual advances.

Brown, who moved into the building in August 2012, told Barbara Lelli, chief investigator at the commission that she was approached by Thomas Paine Sr. four months later and that he began making direct and indirect sexually explicit remarks to her. His behavior lasted for months, Brown told Lelli.

When she rebuffed Paine’s advances, he called her offensive names, she said.

In April, she reported to local police that Paine was harassing her. Paine threatened to shoot her, she said.

Local police issued warnings and arrested him on a charge of disorderly conduct regarding his behavior toward Brown, according to Lelli’s report. Brown secured a protection from harassment order against Paine, but the harassment continued, Lelli’s report said.

When interviewed by Lelli, Paine, 53, said he had never sexually harassed anyone. He said the problems with Brown began when his son bought a computer screen from Brown. When she raised the price, her son refused to pay. She called the police with various complaints, he said.

Paine said Brown was the one harassing him. Sex is “the last thing on my mind,” he told Lelli.

Another female tenant in the building told Lelli that Paine was “rude and obnoxious” when he was intoxicated, which was most afternoons and evenings. At those times, he would make sexually inappropriate remarks, she said.

A police report confirmed that Paine was arrested on April 28, 2013, on a charge of disorderly conduct. He was accused of yelling at Brown and threatening to shoot her, then at a police officer, to whom he used crude and sexually suggestive language.

After Paine’s behavior continued, Brown secured a protection from harassment order in June 2012. Paine was charged with violating the conditions of his release from the earlier arrest.

In August, Paine was found guilty of disorderly conduct and fined. He also was found guilty of violating the conditions of his release.

In September, Paine harassed Brown by phone, Lelli’s report said.

Paine was arrested again in September after charging officers at his apartment and threatening to kill Brown.

In November, the building’s landlord filed paperwork to evict Paine. Paine left his apartment in December.

In her report, Lelli wrote there are “reasonable grounds” to believe that Paine subjected Brown to a “hostile housing environment based on sex.”

Brown also filed complaints against Paine’s two sons.

Brown said that Jonathan Ray Paine of Norway started harassing her after his father’s arrest on April 29, 2013. The younger Paine would stand in the hallway of the building and speak loudly as if talking to his father about Brown, telling the elder Paine to “go after her” if he heard her in her apartment or to call him to “go after her.”

While a passenger in his girlfriend’s car, Jonathan Paine made a hand gesture at Brown and the car swerved in her direction as she was walking into town, Lelli wrote in her report.

Brown complained that in June 2013, Thomas Paine Jr. of Poland called her a “skank” and pushed her into a wall, hit her and scratched her arm.

Police arrested Thomas Paine Jr. and charged him with assault. He was released with conditions that barred him from having contact with Brown, the report said.

In August, the younger Thomas Paine pleaded guilty to assaulting Brown, the report said.

Lelli wrote in her reports on Brown’s complaints against the two brothers that there were “reasonable grounds” to believe that they “intimidated, threatened and/or interfered with Brown in her right to fair housing.”