State police charged a Butler Township man after his girlfriend reported he threatened her with a knife, threatened to set fire to her mother’s house and struck her.

Colin J. Borland, 22, of Lyndora, has been charged with simple assault, criminal mischief, harassment and two counts of terroristic threats following an Oct. 22 incident.

Police responded to a Connoquenessing Township home where a woman reported that her daughter’s boyfriend ransacked her home and broke her TV during a fight with her daughter, according to an affidavit.

The woman’s daughter told police that Borland started “snapping out” after drinking her mother’s alcohol. She said she tried to call police, but Borland pinned her with a knife and said he would kill her before police arrived, according to an affidavit.

She ran outside, but Borland followed, grabbed a can of gas and threatened to set the house on fire as she ran away, according to the affidavit. She also told police that Borland struck her in her jaw. Police said Borland fled before they arrived.