Af­ter re­ceiv­ing threats from a for­mer girl­friend, a busi­ness­man’s home and three cars were dam­aged in a fire in La Brea on Thurs­day.

The 47-year-old man, the own­er of an au­to straight­en­ing and paint­ing garage in Chi­nese Vil­lage, re­port­ed that at 4.46 pm on Thurs­day, his 35-year-old ex-girl­friend called him on his phone. They had been sep­a­rat­ed since De­cem­ber, but he told po­lice she told him to stop play­ing games or she would burn down his house.

Po­lice re­ceived in­for­ma­tion that the woman vis­it­ed his home at 6.30 pm that day but he was not there. She al­leged­ly told one of his em­ploy­ees that she was go­ing to burn down the house. She then went in­to the liv­ing room and left short­ly af­ter.

Min­utes lat­er, the em­ploy­ee saw fire in the liv­ing room and the blaze even­tu­al­ly spread to the garage. Three ve­hi­cles which were be­ing re­paired in the garage were dam­aged.

Of­fi­cers from the Mon Re­pos and Point Fortin Fire Sta­tion, un­der FSO Noel, re­spond­ed and ex­tin­guished the fire.

The es­ti­mat­ed val­ue of the dam­age to the house and ve­hi­cles was not im­me­di­ate­ly as­cer­tained. Po­lice said the cause of the blaze is al­so yet to be de­ter­mined. Of­fi­cers of the La Brea Po­lice vis­it­ed the scene and are in­ves­ti­gat­ing. - Sascha Wil­son