Source: Naples Daily News
NAPLES, FL -- A woman in southwest Florida has been arrested after deputies say she assaulted her husband for complaining about her cooking.
Undercooked potatoes and burnt bread led to the arrest of a 66-year-old Bonita Springs woman on a charge for shaking her 71-year-old common-law husband. The couple have been together for 15 years.
Meredith Hart Mulcahy remained in the Lee County Jail on Wednesday, pending posting of a $1,500 bond for battery on an elderly person.
According to a Lee County Sheriff’s Office arrest report:
About 7 p.m. a deputy was sent to Claire Street where he met with Richard Johnson who said he got into an argument with Mulcahy about undercooked potatoes. He went to the bedroom and began eating. Mulcahy went into the bedroom and threw a phone at him, saying: “I’ll (expletive) kill you.” She grabbed Johnson and began shaking him.
When deputies knocked on the door and tried to talk to Mulcahy who was holding a small, loudly barking dog, she yelled: “Why are you knocking on my door so hard.”
She also told deputies “she burned the bread she was cooking because she was so intoxicated.”
After being arrested, Mulcahy became belligerent in the back seat of the patrol car and started screaming expletives at the officers.
Johnson refused to fill out a statement.
