GUILDERLAND — Brian M. Scavo, a former Albany County legislator, was arrested on Dec. 26 by Guilderland Police for first-degree harassment.

According to the arrest report, Scavo, 62, of 5 Barclay St. in Albany, engaged the complainant outside Ballys Fitness in “unwanted communication,” asking for her name and her phone number; the complainant said she felt that he had waited for her outside the gym. The complainant had had contact with Scavo before, the report said, and his interactions have made her uncomfortable. The complainant reports that this is the fourth or fifth time Scavo has done this same thing to her at the mall, the report says. Scavo was due in court on Jan. 7.

Scavo was found guilty in Albany County Court on Dec. 17, according to a press release from District Attorney David Soares, of two counts of second-degree criminal possession of a forged instrument, both felonies. The guilty verdict followed a jury trial. Scavo was initially remanded in lieu of $25,00 bail, but later made bail. He is due in Albany County Court on Feb. 26 for sentencing, when he faces two-and-a-third to seven years in state prison.

On April 10, 2014, at a Kinderhook Bank on Delaware Avenue in Bethlehem, Scavo had two forged checks, in the amounts of $2,500 and $2,950, that he intended to use to defraud the bank, the release said.

Corrected on Jan. 31, 2016: The original story, copying a phrase from the Guilderland Police arrest report that said Brian M. Scavo was arrested for "harassment 1st — stalking," also used the word stalking in the headline. After Scavo disputed the term "stalking," Deputy Chief of the Guilderland Police told The Enterprise that there is a large area of overlap between harassment and stalking, but that technically Scavo was charged with first-degree harassment, and not under any stalking law.