Beyond Meat’s chief operations officer, Doug Ramsey, has been suspended with immediate effect, the company announced in a statement on Tuesday.

The plant-based meat producer also announced that operations activities would be overseen on an “interim basis” by Jonathan Nelson, senior vice president of manufacturing operations.

The suspension came following reports of Ramsey’s arrest for allegedly biting a man’s nose during an altercation, according to Reuters. The chief operations officer was accused of attacking the man after his car made contact with Ramsey’s, according to news station KNWA, which cited a police report.

KNWA said Ramsey “punched through the back windshield” of a Subaru that had hit the tire of his car. The incident took place in a parking garage near Razorback Stadium in Arkansas.

Ramsey joined Beyond Meat as COO last December, following 30 years at Tyson Foods, where he oversaw the company’s poultry and McDonald’s businesses. On Sunday, Ramsey was released after being charged with third-degree battery and terroristic threatening, with a total bond of $11,085, as reported by Sky News.

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