By Finoa Stokes
The Virgin Islands Daily News
ST. CROIX, U.S. Virgin Islands — As V.I. Police Officers throughout the territory were preparing to delve into a week of activities to celebrate National Police Week, vandals torched six new police units Monday morning as they sat waiting to be turned over to officers and used to patrol the island.
According to the V.I. Territorial Emergency Management Agency’s emergency log, dispatchers received a call at 1:47 a.m. Monday reporting an explosion in the area of Metro Motors Car Dealership in Golden Rock and a second call minutes later that confirmed that there was a fire at that location.
Fire Marshal Clifford Joseph said firefighters from the Richmond fire station responded with several vehicles, including a tanker truck, and used almost 600 gallons of water to extinguish the blazes that had lit up the dark early morning sky. He said six vehicles had been burned, but an attempt at a seventh vehicle failed.
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