Nevada family secretly living in children’s museum had arsenal of weapons: police

A household was secretly dwelling and storing an assortment of weapons inside a Nevada youngsters’s museum the place the mom and father labored, based on authorities.

The arsenal of weapons was discovered as soon as the odd dwelling association got here to mild contained in the Kids’s Museum of Northern Nevada on June 30, with authorities discovering an AK-47, three handguns and an AR-style pistol inside, KRNV-TV in Reno reported, citing the native sheriff’s workplace.

It’s unclear how lengthy the household lived there, nevertheless it got here to an finish after the couple’s 2-year-old baby walked exterior the museum unsupervised, the Carson Metropolis Sheriff’s Workplace mentioned. Whereas this isn’t the primary time police spoke with 41-year-old Wilbert Calhoun about an unsupervised child, this time the tot’s older sister advised deputies she lived within the museum, authorities mentioned.

Authorities and a museum board member discovered sleeping luggage, mattresses, garments and meals in an space off limits to guests, the sheriff’s workplace mentioned.

On prime of the weapons and day-to-day objects, ammunition, knives, suppressors and a Taser, in addition to drug paraphernalia, had been additionally discovered, based on a police report, obtained by KRNV.

A report from the sheriff’s workplace mentioned the storage room the place the medication and weapons had been discovered “may simply be accessed by a wandering baby,” based on KRNV.

“I’ve by no means seen something like this earlier than,” mentioned Sheriff Ken Furlong, based on tv station KOLO.

Calhoun, who was a museum janitor, was charged with baby neglect and endangerment and possession of a suppressor and quick barrel rifle. The spouse, the museum supervisor, has not confronted expenses, although she and her husband had been each fired from the museum.

The sheriff’s workplace didn't know what number of members of the family lived within the museum, however staff at a close-by enterprise consider 5 children and the 2 adults stayed there, KRNV reported.

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Authorities and a museum board member discovered sleeping luggage, mattresses, garments and meals within the museum.
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The museum’s board said on its web site it was “shocked and saddened” by the occasions and vowed to reopen in a means “that not solely assures the protection of all of our guests, however that we as a group will be happy with as nicely.”

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