Sheriff: Family was living at children’s museum in Nevada; weapons and marijuana found

CARSON CITY, Nevada (KOLO/Grey Information) – The Youngsters’s Museum of Northern Nevada has been a staple of childhood in Carson Metropolis for many years, however now there’s closed signal on the door.

The Carson Metropolis Sheriff’s Workplace stated they arrested Wilbert Calhoun on June 30 on fees of kid neglect and hazard after allegedly residing within the museum and stockpiling weapons.

Sheriff Ken Furlong stated deputies responded to a report of a 2-year-old baby in want of supervision.

“The kid was really discovered by a enterprise. He had gotten out, crossed a really busy predominant artery,” he stated.

The toddler’s father is Calhoun, and investigators stated he and his spouse, who served because the museum’s supervisor, had been residing inside storage rooms with their 5 youngsters on the museum.

A number of weapons, silencers and marijuana had been additionally discovered on the scene, the sheriff stated.

“I’ve by no means seen something like this earlier than,” Furlong stated.

Each Calhoun, who was a janitor on the museum, and his spouse, whose title was not offered, had been fired. In response to Furlong, she was not current on the time deputies had been dispatched.

The person remains to be in custody.

In a press release, the board of administrators stated they had been “shocked and saddened that this occurred on our watch, and we’re working onerous to guarantee that nothing like it will ever occur once more.”

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