A 28-year-old Poulsbo man was arrested on charges of assault and malicious mischief Jan. 7 after allegedly becoming angry when catching his girlfriend with another man. The girlfriend, 22, claimed the man smashed the glass door to her residence, slashed her car tires with a knife and had been “pushing her around” after finding her with her “new boyfriend,” Kitsap County Sheriffs reports say.

When deputies arrived on scene, the man had fled and the woman was “visibly upset and crying,” claiming every night her live-in boyfriend gets angry and yells. The woman told deputies the man threatened her “new boyfriend” with a knife, shortly after which the “new boyfriend” left.

Deputies were able to stop the man in his vehicle on State Highway 3 just south of the Sherman Hill Road overpass. The man said when he found out his girlfriend was seeing another man he wanted to get his belongings back, and had to break in her door because she locked him out. He said he slashed her tires, according to the report, because he was mad.

The man is being held on $50,000 bail.