About six weeks after a man was yelled at by residents for running a stop sign in a Georgetown neighborhood, he returned and set fire to two of their cars, according to an arrest affidavit.

Wayne Paul Franks, 38, of Georgetown, was charged with arson, a second-degree felony punishable by up to 20 years in prison.

Police were notified at 12:50 a.m. Jan. 24 about a car fire in the 100 block of Woodmont Drive, the affidavit said. It said the first officer who arrived saw people spraying water on a 2001 Toyota Camry and a 1981 Pontiac Bonneville in a driveway.

The cars were still smoldering when the officer saw them, the affidavit said. The officer also saw a melted windshield washer fluid bottle with a bandana stuffed in it on the trunk lid of the Pontiac, according to the document.

A police investigator who later viewed video surveillance footage from a Speedy Stop gas station at 1006 Leander Road saw a man pull up to a gas pump at 12:09 a.m. Jan. 24 in a Volkswagen Jetta, the affidavit said. The gas station is about two blocks from where the cars were set on fire, the document said. It said the customer, later identified as Franks, removed a bottle that looked like a windshield washer fluid bottle from the trunk of the car and emptied it into the windshield washer reservoir in his car.

Franks then bought $1 worth of gas and pumped it into the windshield washer bottle, the affidavit said. It said he left the station at 12:16 a.m. Jan. 24. The car fires were reported about 35 minutes later to Georgetown police.

One of the neighborhood residents whose cars were set on fire was able to identify the man in the surveillance video as Franks, the affidavit said.

The victim recognized Franks because Franks had run a stop sign in the neighborhood about six weeks earlier, the affidavit said. Witnesses began yelling at him, the document says, and Franks got out of his car.He got into a "verbal disturbance" with them, "reportedly flashed a pistol in his waistband" and left, according to the affidavit.

The residents did not report the disturbance to police, it said.

It said an investigator with the Williamson County district attorney’s office also recognized Franks as the man in the surveillance video because of prior cases. One of Franks’ relatives, who lives about a block from where the fire happened, told police Franks drives a Volkswagen Jetta, the affidavit said.

Investigators also discovered the bottle recovered from the fire had gasoline in it, it said.

Franks was being held Tuesday in the Williamson County Jail with bail set at $40,000.

Franks has a lengthy criminal history in Williamson County dating back to 1996 that includes convictions for engaging in organized criminal activity, assault and assault against a public servant, according to county records.