Stephen C. Andersen, a Westmoreland County restaurateur whose wife died in a February blizzard, has been arrested and jailed on a charge of violating a protective order.

The Westmoreland Sheriff's Department would release no information on the protective order that Andersen is accused of violating.

According to state law, protective orders may be issued "against an allegedly abusing person in order to protect the health and safety of the petitioner or any family or household member."

Westmoreland Sheriff C.O. Balderson said a county deputy arrested Andersen Saturday afternoon at his Good Eats Cafe near Kinsale. Andersen was jailed without bond at the Northern Neck Regional Jail in Warsaw, Balderson said.

Andersen, 48, is scheduled to be arraigned Tuesday morning in Westmoreland General District Court. If tried and convicted of the misdemeanor charge, he could be sentenced to as much as a year in jail and a fine of $2,500.

Andersen's wife Sally Rumsey, 49, disappeared from their isolated home near Oldhams the night of Feb. 5 when a heavy snow had begun to fall. Rumsey had returned the day before from a bicycle tour of Viet Nam. Andersen e-mailed restaurant customers that Rumsey was not at home when he returned from 90-minute walk of his dogs.

According to an affidavit later sealed by the court, Andersen told police Rumsey stormed out of the house after finding pornography on his computer.

Andersen reported his missing wife to police Feb. 7.

Her lightly clad body was found Feb. 9 in the snow in the woods near the home.

A state medical examiner recently ruled Rumsey's death a suicide, but the Westmoreland sheriff said last week that the cause of her death remains under active investigation.

Rumsey's obituary listed her survivors as Andersen, her mother, two daughters, a stepson, brother and sister.