PORTLAND – A Biddeford man who once dressed up in Ku Klux Klan-style outfits and paraded outside a black mayoral candidate’s house was convicted of terrorizing on Monday.

A York County jury found Robert Kalex, 36, guilty of yelling racial threats at Rory Holland.

Prosecutors said the charges stem from an incident last July, when Kalex drove by Holland as he was walking near his home and allegedly said ” … You’re lucky I don’t have my gun right now or I would shoot you right there.”

Kalex had a long history of terrorizing Holland, prosecutors said. In one incident, Kalex once had used racial slurs against Holland, ripped a book from his hands, poured coffee on him and told him “you never know when the sheets and baseball bats will come back.”

In another incident, on Halloween 1999, Kalex dressed up in a Ku Klux Klan outfit and walked outside Holland’s house, according to a police affidavit.

Holland said he is relieved by Monday’s verdict. “It’s time for the responsible citizens in the community to do the right thing and to not let these criminals have their desired effect,” he said. “This verdict [says] we will not tolerate tyranny and injustice anywhere.”

Kalex has denied the charges against him. Sentencing is expected to take place next week. The maximum penalty for the misdemeanor conviction would be one year in jail.

Kalex also is scheduled to appear in court on a complaint of various civil rights violations.

Assistant Attorney General Carlos Diaz is seeking an injunction to keep Kalex from contacting Holland, in addition to a penalty of up to $20,000 plus legal fees.

The complaint is based on four incidents, including one in which Kalex allegedly hung a Holland campaign sign with racial slurs in the window of his Main Street business a week before last November’s mayoral election. The sign showed Holland’s mascot, a raccoon, with a red line through it along with a Confederate flag and the words “no raccoons,” according to the complaint.