Family found living with weapons in Nevada children’s museum

CARSON CITY, Nev. — A Nevada couple was discovered secretly preserving a cache of weapons and dwelling with their two youngsters at a northern Nevada kids’s museum the place they labored, authorities mentioned.

A janitor on the Kids’s Museum of Northern Nevada was arrested late final week, KRNV-TV in Reno reported Friday. The 41-year-old man has been charged with youngster neglect and endangerment and possession of a suppressor and a brief barrel rifle.

Authorities found the arsenal in a storage room, they mentioned. A police report listed an AK-47 rifle, three handguns, a pistol, ammunition, knives and a taser that would have been reached by a toddler. The stash additionally included drug paraphernalia like a bong and a used marijuana joint.

Officers realized the household was dwelling within the museum after the person’s 2-year-old youngster was noticed strolling close by unsupervised, the Carson Metropolis Sheriff’s Workplace mentioned. It was not the primary time police interacted with the person over his youngster being left alone. However this time, the toddler’s older sister gave deputies the museum as their tackle.

Authorities, together with a museum board member, then walked by way of the property and noticed indicators individuals had been dwelling there. Sleeping luggage, mattresses, garments and meals have been among the many objects present in areas off-limits to guests, the sheriff’s workplace mentioned.

The janitor’s spouse, a museum supervisor, was additionally dwelling there, investigators mentioned. However they didn’t determine her or say if she would face any prices.

The couple has since been fired and the museum closed.

The museum’s board of administrators is dealing with questions on how this was capable of occur. The group issued an apology and mentioned they have been “shocked and saddened.”

“We’re trying into one of the best path to reopen in a manner that not solely assures the protection of all of our guests, however that we as a group will be happy with as nicely,” they mentioned in an announcement.

The museum will reopen after hiring a brand new supervisor. However that will not be adequate for some mother and father.

Leah Tsuchimoto, who works at a close-by resort, informed the TV station she is going to by no means take her kids there once more. Your entire ordeal has been “a whole shock,” she mentioned.