WINONA, Minn. – Police arrested a man whose live-in girlfriend said had shoved a burning cigarette into her face during an argument the day before. Jeriah Timothy James Boardman, 22, of Winona, was arrested about 9:50 p.m. in the 200 block of Olmstead Street on the West Side. An officer had spotted him on the street and confronted him. Police said Boardman explained that he had only flicked the cigarette and not aimed it. Officers, however, said the woman still had a burn mark on her lower left cheek the next day. She called the burn painful. The incident had been Wednesday morning in the 200 block of Olmstead. The woman didn’t call police until 4:20 p.m.
Boardman. Booked for domestic assault.