A 38-year-old South Carolina, USA, man, Patrick Donahue Tolbert, has been arrested by the police after he brutally beat up his pregnant wife after she bought him 12 cans of beer instead of the 18 cans he requested.

Tolbert was arrested on charges of criminal domestic violence and has been detained at the Kershaw County Detention Center.

Police officers say they went to the couples' apartment located at 149 Willow Creek Boulevard, after a distress call and met the victim who said that she was assaulted by her husband of two years.

The victim told the officers that Tolbert had been drinking all day and threatened force against her if she did not buy him 18 cans of beer.

The victim agreed to buy her husband 12 cans of beer, but he wanted nothing less than 18.

She went to the store and bought the beer, but when she returned to the residence, her husband was waiting outside the residence with a weapon and began hitting the front of her vehicle, causing damage.

The woman was able to escape to the home of a neighbor and called the police.