Dad, son arrested after son found with gun in Visalia high school

VISALIA, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - A pupil and his dada person been arrested aft the pupil was recovered with a weapon connected schoolhouse grounds successful Visalia, the Visalia Police Department said.

Officers accidental the Visalia Police Department's Youth Services Officer astatine Golden West High School was informed of a societal media station showing a pupil with a weapon connected schoolhouse grounds connected Monday astatine 9 a.m. The serviceman instantly located and detained the pupil with the assistance of schoolhouse staff.

After a hunt of the student's vehicle, which was parked successful the schoolhouse lot, constabulary accidental they uncovered an un-serialized handgun successful the halfway console. The probe confirmed that the firearm was lone successful the parking batch and ne'er posed a menace to the school.

After this, investigators accidental the pupil was arrested and booked into the Tulare County Juvenile Detention Facility connected suspicion of possessing a firearm connected schoolhouse grounds, being a insignificant successful possession of a firearm, having ammunition, and possessing an un-serialized firearm.

A hunt warrant was executed astatine the location of the student's father, which constabulary identified arsenic 47-year-old Lincoln Dukes. According to police, officers discovered an amerciable marijuana grow, an un-serialized handgun, weapon parts, extended magazines, and ammunition. The Visalia Narcotics Investigation Unit dismantled the marijuana grow.

The Police Department says Dukes was arrested and booked into the Tulare County Adult Pre-Trial Facility connected suspicion of marijuana cultivation, being a felon successful possession of firearm and ammunition, expansive theft of utilities, allowing juvenile entree to an unsecured firearm, and kid endangerment.