Marlborough Man Arrested for Stealing Car, Destruction of Property, Larceny, After Northborough Incident

A Marlborough man is facing charges of destruction of property, larceny over $250 and larceny of a motor vehicle after he allegedly took his ex-girlfriend’s car and dumped it in Marlborough, said police.

In the afternoon of Sept. 10, Northborough police responded to the Avalon apartments on a call about a disturbance between a woman and the father of her children.

The victim said the man had taken her 2006 Mitsubishi Outlander without her permission and was possibly heading east on Route 20 to Marlborough.

After taking a statement and putting out a BOLO, Marlborough police located the car, and took into custody Isaiha C. Serrano, 36, 15 Robbins Dr., Apt. 15, Marlborough. The brought Serrano to Northborough, where police booked him on charges of destruction of property, larceny of a motor vehicle and larceny over $250.

The victim said that Serrano, an ex, does not live with her but had stayed over the night before to help with the children in the morning. When she woke him and said she would drive him to his appointment, be “became enraged.” Serrano, according to the statement to police, ripped open a desk, pulled out items such as CDs, and threw them down the stairs.

According to the victim, Serrano then went to the garage, dumped out a storage bin and started to fill it with his things, as well as her laptop and Android tablet. As he filled it, he told her that “he was going to take her car and leave it in the same condition he did last time.” The citim said that Serrano had taken her car in the past after an argument and that the abandoned car was found in Marlborough with the windshield smashed and contaminate dumped in the gas tank, said police.

When Marlborough police found the car, inside it were many items, including clothes, a hard drive, a laptop bag, several laptops, vitamins, empty pill bottles, a mortar and pestle, a scale, supplement powders, surgical masks, journals and other paperwork.

Serrano, in his statement, told police that all of the equipment in the car belonged to him, and that the victim fabricated the story and had in fact “helped load the car before he left the residence earlier.” Serrano said the victim willingly gave him the keys.