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"A Newport, Vt., man is accused of crushing seven police cruisers with a farm tractor.The man was harboring a grudge toward the Orleans County Sheriff\u2019s Department following an earlier arrest, officials said.Police believe Roger Pion, 34, took his family\u2019s farm tractor and ran over the cars just after noon on Thursday at the sheriff department's headquarters near the Newport-Derby line.Pion had previously been arrested for resisting arrest and marijuana possession.\u201CIt sounded like somebody had just made a U-turn on a driveway at first,\u201D said Gilles Delabruere, who owns a car dealership next door. \u201CBut, then it was too loud.\u201DDelabruere saw the tractor go over the cars, he said\u201CHe climbed right on top of those cars -- ran right over those cars not only once but twice,\u201D he said.All seven cars were parked behind the station. Three were parked in spaces. The other four were lined up in a back lot. One of those four included a transport van. Police believe Pion used the tractor to push the four cars together and then drove over them.Officers with the department were inside at the time, but it wasn\u2019t until they were called by a 911 dispatcher that they knew what had happened.\u201CWe heard nothing,\u201D said Orleans County Sheriff\u2019s Department Chief Deputy Philip Brooks. \u201CI got closer to the door, I heard a car horn going off, which was coming from one of the damaged cruisers.\u201DThe total damage is estimated to be about $250,000, officials said.Investigators said Pion took off on the tractor down Route 5. With no available cruisers to go after him, Newport City police were called in, officials said.\u201CWe had nothing left to pursue him in,\u201D Brooks said. \u201CA couple of deputies thought they may chase him down the road but that didn't work.\u201DPolice caught up with Pion, still on the tractor, about a mile down the road. Pion tried again to back up onto a cruiser, but he gave up and was arrested, officers said.By Thursday afternoon, word spread throughout Newport and Derby of what had happened as onlookers came by to take photos of the wreckage.\u201CYou barely see this in movies, much less in real time in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont,\u201D Brooks said.Pion is expected to be arraigned in Orleans County Criminal Court on Friday. He\u2019s expected to be charged with seven counts of unlawful mischief, as well as leaving the scene of an accident, among other charges.He\u2019s being held on $15,000 bail."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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