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<p>WILKES-BARRE &#8212; Kisha Redguard said she hasn&#8217;t slept well for days.</p><p>When she does sleep its on the second floor of the house she said she can no longer call &#8220;home&#8221; because of a raging roach infestation she believes came from neighbors who live in the other half of the house she rents at 61 Bradford Street.</p><p>As of a week ago, those neighbors have moved on, the roaches have not.</p><p>Chris Spinucci, landlord of both properties, said he has done all he can to make the best of a bad situation.</p><p>&#8220;At this point, I would just like to get everyone out of both sides of the house so that I can clean up,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I told Kisha and her husband Mike, don&#8217;t worry about the rent, just find somewhere else to live.&#8221;</p><p>The nightmare began, they say, in January when new neighbors moved in to the other house of the double block. Within a week, they saw roaches in the bathroom and other areas of their house.</p><p>Michael Redguard immediately did what he thought was appropriate, he called Spinucci requesting extermination.</p><p>Spinucci response, he said, was to ask if they could catch some of the roaches.</p><p>&#8220;I&#8217;m a diesel mechanic not an exterminator,&#8221; said Michael, &#8220;I don&#8217;t do that.&#8221;</p><p>Nevertheless, the Redgaurds say they eventually did provide Spinucci with samples of the insects, because they thought it would mean that he would call an exterminator.</p><p>They say that didn&#8217;t happen.</p><p>As Kisha Redguard told her story on Monday night, neighbors filed into the street to support her.</p><p>Bill Edwards who said he has lived in the neighborhood for &#8220;over 28 years,&#8221; said he has always gotten along with the Redguards, but that the whole neighborhood has seemed to decline in the long term.</p><p>&#8220;I just put a roof on my house, because it needed it,&#8221; he said. &#8220;But in reality, its because if I need to leave the neighborhood, I want to be able to sell my house.&#8221;</p><p>On July 16, the couple were before District Judge Rick Cronauer, but not because they were attempting to end the roach infestation, but because Spinucci took them to court attempting to recoup rent he said they owed him.</p><p>The Redguards don&#8217;t deny that they did owe rent, but say it was because the landlord neglected to collect it.</p><p>Spinucci said he was in court simply hoping to get an order directing them to vacate the property.</p><p>&#8220;At this point, I&#8217;m not exactly sure why he took us to court,&#8221; she Kisha Redguard. &#8220;I know he wants us to leave.&#8221;</p><p>In the meantime, a dumpster sits in front of their house, supposedly for the landlord to remove the contents of the property at 59 Bradley Street.</p><p>Neighbor Jennifer Holden who lives at 62 Holden Street is afraid that the transferring the contents of the house to the dumpster will mean the roaches will spread throughout the neighborhood.</p><p>Holden has already seen roaches in her home and said she is often awake at night spraying and killing roaches.</p><p>In a letter provided to the magistrate during the July hearing, JoAnne Galtuso, 46 Bradford Street, said the Redguard have been &#8220;nothing but respectful in the three years which they have lived here.&#8221;</p><p>In the letter, she said of the tenants at 59 Bradley Street, &#8220;they are nothing but filthy slobs allowing their kids to roam the streets unattended.&#8221;</p><p>In the meantime, Michael Redguard said the family, with three young boys, is hoping to move within the next two or three weeks.</p><p>Kisha Redguard, who said her mother is dying of cancer, said she was hoping to be able bring her mother into her home so she could act as her caretaker.</p><p>&#8220;I just hope that I can get all of this cleared up, so that we can be okay again,&#8221; she said.</p><style>
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<div class="neCaption">Residents on Bradford Street in Wilkes-Barre talk about the residence at 59 Bradford having a roach infestation on Monday. </div></div><div class="metaInfo"><photo0>https://www.timesleader.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/web1_roaches01.jpg</photo0><caption0>Residents on Bradford Street in Wilkes-Barre talk about the residence at 59 Bradford having a roach infestation on Monday. </caption0><photoCredit0></photoCredit0></div><div class="neFile"><img class="neImage" src="https://www.timesleader.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/web1_roaches02.jpg">
<div class="neCaption">Residents on Bradford Street in Wilkes-Barre are concerned about the residence at 59 Bradford having a roach infestation on Monday. (Pete G. Wilcox|Times Leader)</div></div><div class="metaInfo"><photo1>https://www.timesleader.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/web1_roaches02.jpg</photo1><caption1>Residents on Bradford Street in Wilkes-Barre are concerned about the residence at 59 Bradford having a roach infestation on Monday. (Pete G. Wilcox|Times Leader)</caption1><photoCredit1></photoCredit1></div></div>
<div class="metaInfo"><bylineMeta><p>By Geri Gibbons</p><p>ggibbons@www.timesleader.com</p></bylineMeta></div><div class="metaInfo"><shirttailMeta><p>Reach Geri Gibbons at 570-991-6117 or on Twitter @TLGGibbons</p></shirttailMeta></div>

Bradford Street residents overwhelmed by roaches