Boynton Beach Police arrested a man after he beat his girlfriend because he didn’t like her stew, The Palm Beach Post reported.
On Tuesday Timothy McTigue, 49, walked over to his 45-year-old girlfriend and told her the stew she was cooking looked like (expletive), police said. She pushed McTigue and said the word he used was not nice, and he in turn grabbed her by the hair and dragged her outside, the newspaper reported.
As she tried to call for help, McTigue threw her phone into a trash bin that had a fire going inside it, and his girlfriend said she burned her hands trying to recover it. McTigue also pounded her head into the ground and left her with a dark black eye, according to the Post.
Police arrested McTigue Thursday on charges of aggravated battery and tampering with a victim, and he is being held on $10,000 bond at the Palm Beach County Jail, according to jail records.
