Houston police find weapons in drunk man's hotel room above New Year's Eve festivities

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last updated 2 January 2018

Houston police officers called to deal with a drunk and unruly hotel guest at the downtown Hyatt Regency Sunday morning found a small cache of weapons in the man's top-floor hotel room. The Hyatt is due to host a New Year's Eve celebration several floors down for about 2,000 people Sunday night.

The man's weapons included an AR-15, a shotgun, a handgun, and ample ammunition, police reported. Because the man was very drunk when his room was searched, officers are waiting to question him about his plans for the weapons. "He's intoxicated," said Houston police Lt. Gordon MacIntosh, "so they won't be able to interview him till he's sobered up a bit."

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Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.

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