A local man was arrested and a Braintree man will face charges after Taunton police say the two treated the rear of a downtown pizzeria as if it were their personal toilet.

TAUNTON — A local man was arrested and a Braintree man will face charges after Taunton police say the two treated the rear of a downtown pizzeria as if it were their personal toilet.

Police say they caught Manuel DaCosta, 66, of Taunton urinating in the same spot where William J. Hinchy of Braintree allegedly admitted doing the same just minutes earlier.

The two men, cops said, relieved themselves behind Devito’s Pizzeria at 4 Taunton Green.

DaCosta, last known address 25 Sumner St., was arrested for engaging in open and gross lewdness and disorderly conduct.

Police say they'll seek a court summons to charge Hinchy, last known address 29 Sherbrooke Ave., with the same two criminal offenses.

In his report, Patrolman Daniel Williams said he was having lunch in the popular eatery Friday at 1:30 p.m., when owner Michael Cashman walked out from the kitchen area “visibly red in the face” and “rapidly approaching a male customer later identified as William Hinchy.”

Cashman, Williams said, asked Hinchy why he had just urinated on the rear wall behind the kitchen area instead of using one of the restaurant’s bathrooms.

“Hinchy stated he was not from the area and did not know where the bathrooms were,” Williams wrote in his report.

Hinchy also, Williams said, claimed he was ignorant of the fact that such an establishment would have bathrooms for customers.

Williams said Hinchy offered his explanation as Cashman pointed out there was now an overwhelming stench of urine behind his business and that people — families and children included — regularly use the Knotty Walk pedestrian alleyway to visit a dentist office directly opposite the narrow building that abuts the Devito’s building.

Shortly after Cashman told Hinchy that once he received his food order he no longer would be welcome, the officer followed suit by telling Hinchy to collect his food and get out.

He also told Hinchy he was being “trespassed” from the premises at the request of the owner.

After Hinchy walked away, Williams said he went back inside where a “still visibly upset” Cashman informed the officer how his young daughter had made him aware of the incident.

The girl, he said, appeared frightened when she came running into the kitchen, “stating there was a man outside peeing in front of the back (screen) door,” according to police.

Cashman said he rushed outside, was “overcome with the noxious smell” but didn’t see anyone.

But once back inside, Cashman told police, his daughter pointed out and identified Hinchy as the offender.

Williams said Cashman escorted him to the back of the building, in order to point out the puddle allegedly left by Hinchy, when the two came upon DaCosta “with his penis out urinating in the same spot.”

“Cashman immediately screamed, ‘There’s another one!’” Williams writes in his report.

Williams goes on to note that DaCosta is well-known to police and has a history of urinating and even sometimes defecating in public areas.

“I myself was taken aback,” Williams said, by both the “foul odor permeating the area” and the fact that “we would locate another male exposing himself to the public while urinating.”

He added: “Not only was the smell nauseating, but the urine was a clear biohazard to the many residents that frequent this cut-through to patronize businesses.”

DaCosta, he said, simply shrugged and exhibited what Williams said was “a cavalier attitude.”

Williams said he then tried to find Hinchy — who earlier stated he was currently “in a program in Norton and was in the area for a class” — but was not successful.