Download a recording of the April 28 bail review hearing for Phillip Robinson Winkfield before Judge Halee Weinstein of Baltimore City District Court/
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But while Robinson often has held the fate of famous and powerful people in her hands, the fate of her own son, 20-year-old
Phillip Robinson Winkfield, is now beyond her reach.
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Winkfield was arrested April 25 after police used force to enter
his Northeast Baltimore apartment and found him, five guns, more than $100,000 worth of illegal drugs, and approximately $8,000 in cash.
Court records show that police came through the door of Winkfield's apartment because
his address was on a FedEx package from California that law enforcers suspected of containing illicit drugs.
The rental unit is in a warren of townhouses called Dutch Village, a development long renowned for gang violence and drugs.
U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) special agent Edward Marcinko tells City Paper the evidence indicates that
Winkfield owned the guns, drugs, and cash, but says there were signs Winkfield was not living at the townhouse alone.
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A May 9 call from City Paper to Judge Robinson's chambers was returned by Robert Mance, a D.C.-based defense attorney retained to represent Winkfield.
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"I'm just now getting involved," Mance says, in response to questions about
Winkfield and his upbringing.
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Court records show that when the couple divorced, John Winkfield received custody of the couple's children,
Phillip and at least one other sibling.
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Phillip Winkfield is a 2005 graduate of the exclusive Maret School, located on a historic campus in the Woodley Park section of northwest Washington.
He attended the University of Delaware from 2005 to '06, according to university officials.
His criminal history is slight.
At
his recent bail review hearing
his attorney described two misdemeanor convictions in Virginia, in 2007, for possessing drug paraphernalia and a weapon.