Man tells Flint police angry girlfriend torched clothes

Man tells Flint police his girlfriend, angry he'd been with wife, torched $10,000 in clothes

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Published On: Dec 31 2012 09:30:10 PM EST   Updated On: Jan 01 2013 04:21:35 AM EST
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FLINT, Mich. -

Flint police say a woman who was upset that her live-in boyfriend stayed too long at his wife's house set fire to $10,000 worth of the man's clothes.

According to Mlive.com, a police reports says the man told officers that his girlfriend became angry when he showed up at 4 a.m. on Saturday.

The man told officers that he and his girlfriend argued for several hours. He says she then took his clothing valued at $10,000 out on the porch, squirted lighter fluid on it and set it ablaze.

Police say the woman was gone when they arrived, and they turned the case over to arson investigators.