WESTPORT — A 56-year-old man was charged with stalking a female neighbor earlier this week.

James Doyle, of Westport, was arrested Nov. 22 on charges of third-degree stalking and breach of peace.

Police were dispatched about 8 p.m. Nov. 22 to investigate the complaint by a woman that a Hales Court neighbor had caused a disturbance.

The woman, who was in tears when officers arrived at the scene, said that Doyle had been “acting erratically and making several attempts to contact her” over the last several weeks, according to the police report.

On that evening, the woman told police, Doyle tried to speak with her again, and that when she refused, “he became belligerent and stood in front of her car so she could not leave.”

Officers were able to corroborate the woman’s complaints, according to the report, and Doyle was placed under arrest.

Doyle was held on $5,000 bond and transported the next day for arraignment at state Superior Court in Stamford.