Crime & Public Safety
Police: Florida man’s fight with girlfriend causes neighborhood power outage
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By Chelsea Todaro, Palm Beach Post
April 29, 2017A man in Hialeah who got into an argument with his girlfriend ended up causing a power outage in the neighborhood, police said.
The outage happened when Angel Milian, 18, set his girlfriend's purse on fire and threw it over a gate at his house, WPLG reports.
Firefighters said the purse set a $3,000 palm tree on fire, and the flames spread to a Florida Power & Light electrical box, according to WPLG.
Hialeah police arrested Milian when the girlfriend showed officers a recorded video of him lighting her purse on fire. He was taken to the county jail and faces a second-degree charge of arson.
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