That's pretty scary, too close to my neighborhood. Glad he was caught!!

Good, keep cleaning up the GHETTO Boys Club neighborhood. When I drive in the area, I get sick to my stomach. I keep saying that Marlborough is the New Lawrence. Just nuke that whole central area of Marlborough.

Pump money into old neighborhoods not illegals!

I love my neighbirhood on French Hill. My family, friends and a lot of great people live here. Painting my neighborhood as a terrible place makes me so sad because so many people have worked so hard to make my neighborhood a goiod place to work and live.

I agree with Tony and Kay. Moreover, there should be no place in our community for bigotry based on the perceived origin or immigration status of people. We all have a shared interest in creating a safe and flourishing community.

Hmm seems that people forget that there was a Meth Lab which was being run on Church Street last year. Guy was making meth in his toolshed, nice quiet neighborhood.. not far from me. The guy was a biker (I mean a Biker, not just a guy with a motorcycle) and had connections to gangs I think, but the fact is, it certainly had little to do with where in town he was living...

Delilah
Every time I read a Marlborough man was arrested I think it takes more than a street address to be a Marlborough Man don't you. Investment in the community is a criteria and it seems to me illegals like Marlborough do you agree? Criminals go where opportunity is and unfortunately so do illegals. Look around and tell me it is not so.

I have lived in the French Hill area for the past 35 years. I have seen this beautiful neighborhood change a great deal over the years. There are still many nice homes, but many have changed over the years to rental property, which houses a lot of illegals. I do believe they had to pass something in Marlboro to keep the rental property from becoming rooming houses. I'm not sure it was very effective. I love my house and my neighbors, but I wouldn't walk the streets alone in my neighborhood at night. It makes me very sad to see a lot of the houses going downhill while some work very hard to keep theirs up, as well as watching our housing values go down.

C Dwyer, then aren't you saying that these amazing neighbors have simply let their properties go? It's not an infrastructure or land issue- it is simply that the owners chose to let the neighborhood (comprised of their properties) become what it is- unless I am missing something. Additionally, if you think about it- this was for many many years a "mill town", with most of the properties built AS rooming houses, low cost housing for the mill workers. Just saying....

No Paul, those amazing neighbors are taking great care of their properties. As the owners of the single family homes die off , they are bought by investors for rental propery. Many are section 8 and many are rented by people who seem to have 15-20 people sharing it with them I have been told by police and fireman that alot have wall to wall mattresses in them with sheets for dividers, makes total sense seeing there are a ton of cars. The single family homes for the most part are well taken of, there just aren't many left. The house directly across the street was bought by a brazilian man. After a couple of years at the height of the market, he took all the equity out and went back to Brazil. The house has sat empty for about 5 years and most likely will be torn down. As far as rooming house in my neighborhood, there aren't any other then the rental properties that are suppose to be like that. The homes in this neighborhood were very nice That's the part that is really sad as I watch the neighborhood change to decay.

I am simply wondering what can actually be done, in that is this kind of a natural progression as a neighborhood ages, then is eventually rebuilt. The upscale nature of the area will probably return with in inevitable replacement of buildings that are failing. In twenty years many of the building will need to be replaced if they are not sooner than that, and then the new buildings and neighborhoods built will be high value property. I think in some respects it is a cyclical thing.. add to it the economic downturn, and you end up with a lot of people, more than before, living in poverty. However, this story was about a drug bust, which can occur anywhere.