Former NFL player arrested on 9 counts of kidnapping and rape, could face life in prison
The original story was disturbing — former NFL All-Pro Kellen Winslow II was arrested last week after allegedly walking into a residential trailer that did not belong to him near San Diego.
Now, the former Pro Bowl tight end might be facing life in prison as horrifying details have come to light.
The initial police report said a resident called authorities after seeing a stranger enter a neighbor’s trailer at a mobile home park.
Police identified the man as the 34-year-old Winslow.
Ex-NFL player Kellen Winslow Jr. posted bail early this morning after being arrested on suspicion of burglary in Encinitas https://t.co/Se1ZegfGqq pic.twitter.com/8TxmrRNZQi
— ABC 10News San Diego (@10News) June 8, 2018
KGTV-TV in San Diego said a woman approached Winslow and asked if he needed assistance.
“He said, ‘Nope, just looking for my dog.’ I go, ‘What dog?’ and he said, ‘Well, it’s a red dog, Clifford.’ And I went, ‘There’s no dog here.’ I said, ‘I’m not comfortable with this, you need to leave.’ And he just stood there and he went, ‘Alright then,'” she said.
Winslow’s publicist told The San Diego Union-Tribune last week that he was at the park to look for a home for his mother-in-law and that the incident “came down to a neighbor overreacting.”
“Nothing was touched, taken, moved or stolen,” Denise White of EAG Sport Management said.
On Monday, however, the Sheriff’s Department issued a statement that Winslow “has given inconsistent and varied statements as it relates to his presence in the mobile home and in the mobile home park.”
Now TMZ.com is reporting that the sheriff’s office brought nine criminal charges against Winslow late Thursday.
It’s a sordid list, to say the least.
Scripps Ranch HS grad and former NFL tight end Kellen Winslow II arrested again. And the charges are much worse than just burglary. Here's the SD Sheriff Synopsis pic.twitter.com/PlMDO47KvG
— Troy Hirsch (@troyhirschfox5) June 14, 2018
• Two counts of kidnapping with intent to commit rape.
• Two counts of forcible rape.
• One count of forcible sodomy.
• One count of forcible oral copulation.
• Two counts of residential burglary.
• One count of indecent exposure.
Authorities say they’ve obtained a warrant to search Winslow’s home as he sits in a county jail.
Winslow, the son of Hall of Fame tight end Kellen Winslow, starred at the University of Miami before being the sixth pick in the 2004 NFL draft by Cleveland.
He tore his ACL before his second season but came back to make the Pro Bowl in 2007.
While never achieving the stardom projected for him, Winslow bounced around from Tampa Bay to New England before finishing up his career with the New York Jets.
For the past two seasons, Winslow attempted comebacks, neither of which worked out.
Now he has much bigger problems than football.
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