Police have charged a Connecticut with allegedly torturing and waterboarding his girlfriend in the basement of his home.

Richard Stevenson, of Meriden, is charged with unlawful restraint, assault and related offenses. Police say Stevenson tied his girlfriend's hands, gagged her with a sock and poured water over the sock into her mouth after an argument in May.

He let her go, but police say he was captured on surveillance video days later trying to rob a gas station while he had a 9-month-old baby with him. He allegedly pointed a knife at the child when a worker refused to give him money. The child wasn't harmed.

Stevenson is being held on $245,000 bond. It couldn't be determined whether he has a lawyer.