17 Guns Including A Machine Gun Found In Drug Related Search Warrant

A search warrant on a Slinger apartment resulted in the seizure of cocaine, $12,000 in cash, seventeen firearms including a machine gun, thousands of rounds of ammunition, ballistic vests, and other narcotics.

Investigators with the Washington County Sheriff’s Office Multi-Jurisdictional Drug Task Force and Slinger Police Department conducted the search warrant August 24 at the apartment rented by Robert Cleveland, a 37-year-old Slinger man, who was already in custody at the Washington County Jail on unrelated charges at the time of the warrant.

Authorities say they had been watching Cleveland for several months as he was known to sell cocaine in local bars.

Cleveland is now charged with multiple additional felonies and misdemeanors including keeper of a drug house while armed, possession of a machine gun and possession of cocaine with intent to deliver. His bail was set at $100,000.