Celebrity chef Justin Sutherland was arrested in St. Paul on Friday night on suspicion of domestic assault and felony threats of violence, police said.

Shortly after 8 p.m. Friday, officers were called to an address in the 800 block of Front Avenue in St. Paul after receiving reports a man with a gun was outside the address. When officers arrived, they spoke to a man and woman. The man, identified as Sutherland, 39, was arrested and booked at the Ramsey County jail on suspicion of felony domestic assault and felony threats of violence, said Sgt. Mike Ernster, spokesman for the St. Paul Police Department.

“Our investigators will be working to determine the circumstances that led to this arrest being made. When we have those details, we will share them,” he said. Police will present a case to the Ramsey County Attorney’s Office for charging consideration, according to Ernster.

Sutherland remained in jail as of Saturday afternoon.

The St. Paul chef has been featured on “Iron Chef,” “Fast Foodies,” “Top Chef,” “Taste the Culture” and a judge on several other food-focused TV shows and talk shows such as “Good Morning America.” He is a Food Network “Iron Chef” winner and season finalist on “Top Chef.” He also is the author of a cookbook, “Northern Soul,” and won an Emmy for “Taste the Culture.”

He opened his first restaurant, Handsome Hog, in St. Paul’s Lowertown. Sutherland is no longer affiliated with that restaurant but owns Big E, an egg sandwich shop on Grand Avenue.

Earlier this year, he announced he was going to help reopen the beloved Rondo community restaurant Golden Thyme Coffee and Cafe. Sutherland and his dad, Kerry Sutherland, are partnering with the nonprofit Rondo Community Land Trust to open the restaurant.

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