ST. PETERSBURG — Police have located and arrested a woman they said threw boiling soup onto her sleeping boyfriend after a fight.

Misty Childs, 41, faces a charge of attempted first-degree murder, St. Petersburg police said, following her arrest on Tuesday after a day-and-a-half-long search. Her boyfriend, Lavont Moss, 46, remains in a hospital in critical condition.

Officers got a tip at 1:30 p.m. that Childs was at 2001 ½ Queensboro Ave. S, and they arrested her there.

Shortly after midnight Sunday, police said, the couple had been arguing at a halfway house where they share a room at 1123 13th Ave S. Once Moss went to bed, police said Childs grabbed a pot of soup she'd been cooking and dumped it onto his face and chest. Then she left.

Police said they weren't able to talk to Moss because he was so badly burned. Detectives interviewed Childs Tuesday afternoon. She was to be booked into the county jail.