Ex-NFL player faces multiple sex charges
DIEGO — Former NFL player Kellen Winslow II was arrested last week on suspicion of multiple sex crimes, including two counts of forcible rape, according to the San Diego County Sheriff ’s Department.
Winslow, 34, was arrested Thursday morning by sheriff’s deputies serving a search warrant.
Winslow, the son of Chargers Hall of Famer Kellen Winslow, was to have been arraigned Friday. He faces charges including two counts of forcible rape, one count of forcible sodomy and one count of forcible oral copulation, the sheriff ’s department said. Other charges include kidnapping with the intent to commit rape, residential burglary and indecent exposure, according to the Sheriff ’s Department.
No details of the incidents were available.
Winslow was arrested a week after he was briefly jailed on suspicion of burglary. His new arrest came on the same day he was to appear in a Vista courtroom for arraignment in the burglary case.
Brian Watkins, the attorney who said he was representing Winslow in the burglary case, declined to comrest ment when reached by phone Thursday afternoon.
Winslow was initially taken into custody June 7 after deputies responded to reports of a possible burglary in the Park Encinitas Mobile Home Park on El Camino Real near La Entrada.
About 2:40 p.m. that day, a resident reported seeing a stranger walk into a neighboring residence. The neighbor confronted the intruder, who subsequently got into a black SUV and left, sheriff ’s officials said.
Deputies stopped Winslow, who was booked into custody on one count of burglary. He soon posted $50,000 bond and was released from the Vista jail.
His publicist said the arSAN was the result of an overreaction from a neighbor who saw him at the residence of a couple who were not home.
The day after the arrest last week, the publicist supplied a statement from another of Winslow’s defense attorneys, Harvey A. Steinberg, who said Winslow “emphatically denies committing any burglary.”
Winslow grew up in San Diego and went to Patrick Henry and Scripps Ranch high schools before attending the University of Miami. The sixth draft pick in 2004, he played in the NFL for 10 seasons.