WELLESLEY - The Ardmore apartment complex near Interstate 95 in Wellesley is home to many families and young professionals. But residents say that in September the new tenants in Apartment 403 began attracting a different crowd: men, arriving alone, at all hours of the day and night.

Residents in the red-brick, four-story building near the Newton line say they became convinced that their neighbors across the hall were running some sort of prostitution operation. And last week, Wellesley police said they confirmed those suspicions, busting up the town's second alleged house of prostitution in the last seven months.

"These two cases this year are the only two cases I'm aware of in the 11 years I've been here," said Sergeant Marie Cleary of the Wellesley Police Department. "It's an extremely uncommon thing to happen in Wellesley."

But law enforcement officials say the Wellesley arrests - along with other recent arrests for prostitution in Needham and Newton - ar...

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