{"id":380,"date":"2004-11-27T16:17:32","date_gmt":"2004-11-27T22:17:32","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=380"},"modified":"2004-11-27T16:18:28","modified_gmt":"2004-11-27T22:18:28","slug":"dads-drinking-crackdown-backfires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/?p=380","title":{"rendered":"Dad&#8217;s Drinking Crackdown Backfires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, I just love these sweet <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com.au\/common\/story_page\/0,4057,11524712%255E1702,00.html\">Thanksgiving-with-the-family type stories<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> A father&#8217;s attempt to teach his daughter a lesson about drinking backfired when the teen led officers to a stash of drugs and weapons inside their New Jersey home, US police said.<\/p>\n<p>Kevin Winston, 46, called police in the early hours after his 16-year-old daughter came home drunk and unruly.<\/p>\n<p>When police arrived, however, the girl allegedly told them she feared for her safety because her father stored drugs and weapons in the home.<\/p>\n<p>The girl led officers to a crawl space above the ceiling where they found four semi-automatic guns and more than 600 vials of cocaine, a spokesman said.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Winston was charged with numerous weapons and drug charges. His five daughters were placed in the custody of a relative. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He called us on her and ended up getting locked up himself,&#8221; said Newark Police Director Anthony Ambrose. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If one is in possession of illegal weapons and drugs, I think a generally good rule of thumb is don&#8217;t ever call the cops, even when one&#8217;s little brat is three sheets to the wind.  Ah, Turkey Day, Jersey-style.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, I just love these sweet Thanksgiving-with-the-family type stories. A father&#8217;s attempt to teach his daughter a lesson about drinking backfired when the teen led officers to a stash of drugs and weapons inside their New Jersey home, US police said. Kevin Winston, 46, called police in the early hours after his 16-year-old daughter came [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-wtf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}