A Long Island tattoo artist was arrested after allegedly beating his wife, kicking her in the face with a steel-toed boot, and chaining her to a basement wall near a room that housed a pair of 50-pound leopards, authorities said yesterday.

On Sunday afternoon, after receiving 911 calls from his wife, detectives from the Suffolk County Police Department arrested the tattoo artist, Anthony Barone, 34, owner of Tony’s Tattoo in Lynbrook.

After police arrived, detectives noticed that his wife, Anastasia Barone, 32, had suffered a broken nose and other bruises to her face.

She later told police detectives that after a dispute with her husband on May 20 he allegedly punched her in the face repeatedly inside their Dix Hills home, and that after she had fallen to the ground during the assault, Mr. Barone had allegedly kicked her in the body and face with a steel-toed boot, fracturing her nose.

Afterward, according to a supervisor of detectives for the Suffolk County police, Inspector Frank Stallone, Mr. Barone allegedly chained his wife to a wall in the basement of their residence for several hours.

Chains were allegedly wrapped around her wrists, and another set of chains was allegedly wrapped around her neck, Inspector Stallone said.

Ms. Barone told detectives she was chained to a wall inside one of the basement’s many subterranean partitioned sections, adjacent to a space where her husband kept a pair of 6-month-old leopards.

Ms. Barone also told police her husband let the leopards freely roam around the house, and that the animals came into regular contact with their four children, ages 2, 4, 7, and 8, Inspector Stallone said.

At other times, Ms. Barone alleged, her husband chained her in the back of his tattoo shop, according to police.

When police first responded to the 911 calls, Mr. Barone allegedly ran out the back door of his home and into a nearby wooded area.

After a police dog was used to hunt him down, however, Mr. Barone surrendered without incident, police said.

Mr. Barone was charged with endangering the welfare of his children, wrongful imprisonment, and assault in the second degree.

All are felonies.

If convicted, Mr. Barone stands to face 18 years in prison. He is currently being held in custody on $500,000 bail, police said.

Mr. Barone has four prior arrests for drug possession and sales, possession of a criminal weapon, assault, and driving while intoxicated, Inspector Stallone said.

The disposition of those cases could not immediately be determined.

An attorney representing Mr. Barone could not be immediately reached by the Sun yesterday.