A Cookeville, Tenn., man who threw gasoline onto his girlfriend and chased her with a cigarette lighter is going to jail for six years.
Forty-three-year-old David Newcomb received the sentence in a plea arrangement.
Last September, Newcomb was charged with attempted first-degree murder and two counts of aggravated assault.
According to the Cookeville Herald-Citizen, police said they found Newcomb holding a gas can in one hand and a cigarette lighter in the other. He threw gasoline on one officer.