BRYAN, Texas — Officers responding to reported gunfire at a trailer park in Bryan, Texas, arrested a man and woman for child endangerment on Saturday night after encountering living conditions characterized as “hazardous.”
“There was a clear and present danger due to the living conditions. There was no safe route out of the home if there were a threat of fire or imminent danger due to the clutter and trash located inside the residence,” officers with the Bryan Police Department wrote in their incident report.
According to WTAW, 33-year-old Justin Calhoun and 29-year-old Dalys Weihausen were each charged with four counts of child endangerment.
Although Weihausen was listed in the report as the mother of the children – ages 12, 11, 6 and 7 months – it was not immediately clear what Calhoun’s relationship to Weihausen or the children is, KBTX-TV reported.
Police also confirmed to WTAW that a family member picked up all four children prior to the arrests.
The officers were initially called to the trailer park after Calhoun allegedly fired a gun toward a neighbor during a parking dispute, but when they requested entry to the dwelling, Weihausen declined, saying “she did not want her children to see her interacting with law enforcement,” KBTX reported.
After securing a warrant, the two officers were forced to don protective suits and respiratory masks to enter the single-wide trailer where all six people were living, along with two pit bulls and a corgi mix, WTAW reported.
The officers stated that the protective gear was necessary because of the “overwhelming and nauseating smell of ammonia and feces” coming from the trailer. Once inside, the officers discovered rotting floors, piles of dirty clothing, pests, inaccessible sinks, dirty diapers, animal waste and perilous levels of clutter, declaring the dwelling “hazardous,” KBTX reported.
Weihausen was released from jail Sunday on bonds totaling $20,000, while Calhoun was also charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, public intoxication, marijuana possession, drug paraphernalia possession and unlawful possession of a firearm by a felon. He was released from jail Monday after posting bonds totaling $45,000 dollars, WTAW reported.
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