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The gloves are coming off in this Westchester County town.

Police in the The City of Mount Vernon are looking for a saboteur who stuffed latex gloves in the gas tanks of more than two dozen city trucks — halting snow plows and garbage trucks during Tuesday’s storm.

“It’s an attack on everybody in Mount Vernon,” Mayor Richard Thomas told reporters, calling the incident “a direct act of intimidation.”

Mayor Richard Thomas (center) speaks to reporters about the incident.Office of Mayor Richard ThomasMayor Richard Thomas (center) speaks to reporters about the incident.Office of Mayor Richard Thomas

The vandalism happened sometime after the city’s Department of Public Works garage was closed at 3:40 p.m. Monday and before the midnight crew came in to prep for the snowstorm and garbage pickup, officials said.

At around 5 a.m. a snow plow that had left the garage stopped running and had to be towed back. Diamond Grip brand latex gloves — the same as the kind kept at the garage — were fished out of the gas tank.

In total, 29 trucks — 16 garbage trucks and 13 snow plows — had been tampered with, garage superintendent Edgar Torres told the Rockland/Westchester Journal News.

The damage was only inter-mitten — by 10 a.m., mechanics had cleared enough gloves that some plows could get out to clear the snow.

Westchester County officials also sent in repair crews to help clear out the tanks, Thomas said.

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