St. Paul police discovered a gun in a crib and also found drug paraphernalia when they searched a home in the city's North End last week.
The Central District FORCE unit, which addresses neighborhood crime issues such as problem residential properties, executed a search warrant about 8:30 p.m. last Friday at a house in the 1100 block of Abell Street, according to a police report. The home was the site of a day care business.
After police entered the house, they found marijuana and drug paraphernalia. They also located a gun in a crib on an upper floor. Several people were arrested in connection with the search.
According to arrest and police records, a 33-year-old man was arrested for possession of a gun by a felon and for a felony warrant out of Wisconsin for a parole violation. A 19-year-old St. Paul man was arrested for two misdemeanor warrants and a 37-year-old woman, whose apparently lived at the house, was booked for negligent storage of a firearm and neglect/endangerment of a child, both gross misdemeanors. According to online Minnesota Department of Human Services records, the woman has an active license to provide family child care. Her license was first effective in 2000.
A juvenile also was cited for possession of a small amount of marijuana and operating a disorderly house.
The police reports didn't indicate whether or not there were children in the home at the time of the search, said Sgt. Paul Paulos, spokesman for the St. Paul police, on Monday.
