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The original story was disturbing — former NFL All-Pro Kellen Winslow II was arrested last week after allegedly walking into a residential trailer that did not belong to him near San Diego.

Now, the former Pro Bowl tight end might be facing life in prison as horrifying details have come to light.

The initial police report said a resident called authorities after seeing a stranger enter a neighbor’s trailer at a mobile home park.

Police identified the man as the 34-year-old Winslow.

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KGTV-TV in San Diego said a woman approached Winslow and asked if he needed assistance.

“He said, ‘Nope, just looking for my dog.’ I go, ‘What dog?’ and he said, ‘Well, it’s a red dog, Clifford.’ And I went, ‘There’s no dog here.’ I said, ‘I’m not comfortable with this, you need to leave.’ And he just stood there and he went, ‘Alright then,'” she said.

Winslow’s publicist told The San Diego Union-Tribune last week that he was at the park to look for a home for his mother-in-law and that the incident “came down to a neighbor overreacting.”

“Nothing was touched, taken, moved or stolen,” Denise White of EAG Sport Management said.

On Monday, however, the Sheriff’s Department issued a statement that Winslow “has given inconsistent and varied statements as it relates to his presence in the mobile home and in the mobile home park.”

Now TMZ.com is reporting that the sheriff’s office brought nine criminal charges against Winslow late Thursday.

It’s a sordid list, to say the least.

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• Two counts of kidnapping with intent to commit rape.
• Two counts of forcible rape.
• One count of forcible sodomy.
• One count of forcible oral copulation.
• Two counts of residential burglary.
• One count of indecent exposure.

Authorities say they’ve obtained a warrant to search Winslow’s home as he sits in a county jail.

Winslow, the son of Hall of Fame tight end Kellen Winslow, starred at the University of Miami before being the sixth pick in the 2004 NFL draft by Cleveland.

He tore his ACL before his second season but came back to make the Pro Bowl in 2007.

While never achieving the stardom projected for him, Winslow bounced around from Tampa Bay to New England before finishing up his career with the New York Jets.

For the past two seasons, Winslow attempted comebacks, neither of which worked out.

Now he has much bigger problems than football.

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Mike is an 11-time Michigan Emmy Award winner who has spent nearly 30 years working in sports media.
Mike has spent nearly 30 years in all aspects of sports media, including on-air, 10 at ESPN and another 10 at Fox Sports Detroit. He now works as a TV agent, and lives with his family in West Bloomfield, MI.
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Sudbury, Massachusetts
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11-time Michigan Emmy winner
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Emerson College
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The Longest Year: One Family's Journey Of Life, Death, And Love/If These Walls Could Talk: Detroit Tigers/If These Walls Could Talk: Detroit Lions
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