Maryland and North Carolina police worked together to arrest the man connected to a summer string of Catonsville pool parties on Monday in Raleigh, according to a Baltimore County Police press release.

Police charged Norman Johnson, 61, with maintaining a disorderly house in July after multiple complaints about his house parties on Collinsway Road.

Neighbors told WJZ that the parties were disruptive and spilled out into the streets around the house.

Police responded to 20 calls to the property on 13 different days of June and July.

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During these calls police observed loud noise, fights breaking out, and repeatedly asked Johnson to “stop hosting these lewd gatherings,” according to charging documents.

Johnson gave a different characterization of the gatherings than his neighbors, saying in a July interview that nothing illegal was happening.

“I think it’s more so that they don’t like to see these kids come up here. They don’t like them. They don’t like us,” Johnson told WJZ.

Police filed the charge of maintaining a disorderly house, which is a misdemeanor, on July 20.

After initially saying he’d turn himself in, Johnson left the state. When he failed to appear in court for a separate Carroll County auto theft case in September, Baltimore County detectives sought a nationwide warrant for his arrest, the release said.

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Working in tandem, Baltimore County detectives, the Baltimore U.S. Marshals Task Force and the Carolinas Regional Fugitive Task Force found Johnson in Raleigh, where they took him into custody on Monday.

He remained there Thursday awaiting extradition back to Maryland.

The parties helped inspire a Baltimore County Council bill passed in early October that banned commercial house parties and established fines of up to $5,000 for violators.

Flyers for Johnson’s events advertised $20 admission with a capacity of up to 125 people. He said that any money that was made was used for food, security, and maintenance.