BOISE -- A Boise man is in the Ada County Jail today after police say doused his female roommate with lighter fluid and threatened to set her on fire.
Jonathan Drake, 23, is charged with felony aggravated battery following an incident at a Boise residence last night.
Boise Police were called to a fight in 1900 block of West Panama Street around 11 p.m.
Witnesses told officers that Drake had been drinking and became angry at his roommate. At one point, he held her by the throat before retrieving a can of lighter fluid. He then sprayed her with the lighter fluid while holding a lighter and making verbal threats.
He was arrested and booked on a charge of aggravated battery. Police say this felony charge falls under a definition in the law whereby a person threatens another with a corrosive acid or a caustic chemical of any nature.
