According to CBS 12 in Providence, Police have arrested a New Bedford man accused of throwing a woman into a campfire Monday night. The 45 year old Robert McWilliams, has been charged with assault and battery, assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, intimidation of a witness and assault with intent to kill after officers were called to Long Road Monday night shortly after receiving a report of a suspicious person only to arrive to find a woman suffering from burns to her upper body. The woman told the officers McWilliams had attacked her in the woods and threw her into the campfire. The woman was transported to the hospital, with the severity of her injuries unknown at this time.

Officers later found McWilliams in the woods and arrested him without incident.