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Posted on 11/28/2004 9:04:33 AM PST by XXXXX88XXXXX
NEWARK - A father's attempt to teach his daughter a lesson about abusing alcohol backfired when the teen led authorities to a stash of drugs and illegal weapons inside his house.
Police arrested Kevin Winston, 46, early Friday morning on numerous weapons and drug charges, including possession with the intent to distribute and drug possession within 1,000 feet of a school. He was being held at the Essex County Jail.
``He called us on her and ended up getting locked up himself,'' said Newark Police Director Anthony Ambrose.
The incident began at 2:45 a.m. Friday when the 16-year-old came home drunk and unruly. Winston called police, but when they arrived, the girl told police she feared for herself and her four sisters aged 3 through 15 because her father stored drugs and weapons there.
She led them to a hidden crawl space above the ceiling where they found four semi-automatic guns, including an AK-47; a sawed-off shotgun, 9-mm handgun, .22-caliber rifle and more than 70 rounds of ammunition.
They also found 617 vials of cocaine plus drug paraphernalia.
The children were placed in the custody of a relative by the state Department of Youth and Family Services, Ambrose told The Star-Ledger of Newark.
``This was routine police work,'' he said. ``Officers responded to the scene, and acted upon the information received from the 16-year-old. It's a step in the right direction.'
Sometimes I don't know whether to laugh or cry but this time I'm gonna laugh.
Five daughters. Yikes! I'd feel sorry for the man if he wasn't so stupid.
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Hopefully, the daughter learned a valuable lesson out of this. Don't stash cocaine in your house.
Wasn't very serious, was he?
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