I hope they arrested your neighbor and prosecuted him to the fullest!..................
Response to another poster.
“Did you file a suit against your neighbor or were they arrested?”
My neighbor was running the HOA. He approved a free standing garage, even picking the design and the color. He waited until I finished it and then sued me to force me to tear it down. (Power and control freak.)
I told the deputy what had happened, proved I had not left the house by making him watch the recording of me getting home and then not leaving until he arrived. I asked the deputy to arrest my neighbor for making a false report. He said, “We don’t do that.” Since this wasn’t the first time, I handed him a copy of the law and asked again. He said, “We decide what laws to enforce.” After a similar incident another deputy suggested, “You do realize your neighbor is crazy, right? If you don’t move he will eventually kill you.” Another one told me, “I realize this is very annoying. But if you make any response, we will arrest you. Do you understand?” (The Sheriff is a Democrat. Philosophy matters.)
I moved forty miles away, incidentally, selling my house at the peak of the real estate bubble. My neighbor continued to stalk me. Eventually he gave up and stalked the new owners, who sold out in a mere six months. He’s still there and many neighbors have moved to get away from him. The power of an HOA is insane, especially when a sociopath gets control of it.