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Police: Woman assaults boyfriend after he introduces her to the ‘other woman’ at dinner

BELLEVUE, Wash. — A woman was arrested after allegedly attacking her boyfriend and breaking items in his apartment following a dinner where he introduced her to another woman he was dating, Bellevue police said.

A police blotter post said that “to prove he was not cheating on his girlfriend,” the man, 63, invited his girlfriend, 50, and the “supposed other woman” to dinner together.

The dinner “did not go as planned,” and the man and his girlfriend went back to his apartment and began fighting, the post said.

The woman then allegedly broke things in the apartment, poured wine on the floor, scratched the man and pushed him to the ground. The scratching left visible marks on the man, according to the post.

A spokesperson for the Bellevue Police Department confirmed the girlfriend was arrested and booked into jail.

The woman was booked on charges of assault in the fourth degree, domestic violence and malicious mischief in the third degree, domestic violence.