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A 23-year-old transient was arrested Wednesday on warrants stemming from an incident in May in which he is accused of beating and burning his girlfriend after she tried to leave their motel room.

Pasco County sheriff’s deputies said Casey Lee Cantrell, who drifts from home to home, met the 19-year-old mother of his 1-year-old child at the Twilite Motel, 4040 Gall Blvd.,tiffany bracelets, on May 11. He asked her to go to a party with him at his friend’s home, but she declined, a sheriff’s office report states.

At 3 a.m. on May 12, Cantrell returned "drunk and high on something," and asked the girlfriend to take a shower,tiffany necklaces, the report says. She refused and Cantrell grew angry, accusing her of cheating on him, according to the report.

It says a fight ensued, and she tried to leave.

He stopped her, hit her face, pushed her to the ground, wrapped a towel around his fist,tiffany cuff Links, and punched her in the chest and face, the report alleges.

Deputies said Cantrell went outside, got a baseball bat out of his car, hit her buttocks with it and then held her down on the bed, burning her stomach with a cigarette.

Deputies said Cantrell tore a metal towel rack off the bathroom wall, heated it and burned the woman’s thigh.

The woman screamed, but no one came to help, the report states.

Later that morning,tiffany rings, she told deputies, Cantrell calmed down and apologized to her. He drove her to his sister’s house and when the woman told her what happened, the sister took her to a battered women’s shelter and she was referred to law enforcement.

Deputies arrested Cantrell on Wednesday when he was pulled over for speeding at U.S. 41 and Ehren Cutoff in Land O’ Lakes.

He was being held at the Land O’ Lakes Jail on charges of aggravated battery and false imprisonment with bail set at $75,000.

Reporter Lisa A. Davis can be reached at (727) 815-1083.