--- title: Man Arrested After Getting Violent Over Grilled Cheese description: A too-cheesy grilled cheese sandwich sparked a domestic dispute canonical: https://time.com/4436714/man-arrested-after-getting-violent-over-a-grilled-cheese-sandwich-with-too-much-cheese/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-08-03T15:50:01.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:35:01.553Z og:title: Grilled Cheese Sandwich Sparks Domestic Dispute og:description: A man was arrested after his grilled cheese sandwich was "too cheesy" og:url: https://time.com/4436714/man-arrested-after-getting-violent-over-a-grilled-cheese-sandwich-with-too-much-cheese/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt10f15f45f2e0c04e/6987ea3d8e06014d8e45e07a/grilled-cheese-sandwich.jpg?branch=production&width=486&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 486 og:image:height: 273 og:image:alt: Grilled cheese sandwich og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Grilled Cheese Sandwich Sparks Domestic Dispute twitter:description: A man was arrested after his grilled cheese sandwich was "too cheesy" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt10f15f45f2e0c04e/6987ea3d8e06014d8e45e07a/grilled-cheese-sandwich.jpg?branch=production&width=486&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Man Arrested After Getting Violent Over a Grilled Cheese Sandwich With Too Much Cheese > Sponsored content. 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Angered at the sight of all the extra cheesiness, James DePaola became agitated and violent, yelling at the woman, Michele DePaola. [According to WSB-TV](http://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/clarke-county/dispute-over-grilled-cheese-leads-to-911-call-arrest/415673191), DePaola then ripped the landline out of the wall so his wife couldn’t [call the police](http://time.com/4376706/woman-calls-911-cheese-pizza/?iid=sr-link1) and reportedly [screamed](http://time.com/3313343/ray-rice-black-women-domestic-violence/?iid=sr-link1) at her intensely. The couple’s 12-year old daughter who witnessed the incident called the police to the scene, according to Athens-Clarke County police. James DePaola was charged with obstruction of a 911 call and criminal trespass/damage to property over what the police now refer to as “the grilled cheese incident”. DePaola has a history of “abusive behavior,” and was often “excessively critical and controlling of day to day things in life” like [sandwiches](http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/10/08/man-arrested-for-attacking-wife-with-sandwich/), apparently. \[H/T [Death and Taxes](http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/299023/man-arrested-for-becoming-violent-after-wife-makes-grilled-cheese-too-cheesy/)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4436714/man-arrested-after-getting-violent-over-a-grilled-cheese-sandwich-with-too-much-cheese/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4436714/man-arrested-after-getting-violent-over-a-grilled-cheese-sandwich-with-too-much-cheese/"},"headline":"Man Arrested After Getting Violent Over a Grilled Cheese Sandwich With Too Much Cheese","datePublished":"2016-08-03T15:50:01.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:35:01.553Z","description":"There was just too much cheese","url":"https://time.com/4436714/man-arrested-after-getting-violent-over-a-grilled-cheese-sandwich-with-too-much-cheese/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Crime","food and drink"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt10f15f45f2e0c04e/6987ea3d8e06014d8e45e07a/grilled-cheese-sandwich.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt10f15f45f2e0c04e/6987ea3d8e06014d8e45e07a/grilled-cheese-sandwich.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Grilled cheese sandwich","caption":"Grilled cheese sandwich","creditText":"David Bishop Inc.—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4436714/man-arrested-after-getting-violent-over-a-grilled-cheese-sandwich-with-too-much-cheese/","name":"Man Arrested After Getting Violent Over a Grilled Cheese Sandwich With Too Much Cheese"}}]}] ```