An argument with his girlfriend led to a burning purse, power outages to a neighborhood and some time behind bars for one Florida man.

After allegedly grabbing his girlfriend’s purse during an argument, Angel Santino Milian, 18, used a lighter to ignite it and then threw it over a gate of his Hialeah residence, according to WPLG.

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The burning purse lit a palm tree valued by the city at $3,000, and the flames spread to an electric transformer box, which knocked out power to the neighborhood, WPLG reported.

Milian allegedly recorded a video of the incident and sent it to his girlfriend, who turned it over to police, according to WPLG.

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Milian was booked on Friday and remains in custody as of Monday afternoon on charges of second-degree arson and assault and battery.

Read more at WPLG.

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