Father leaves toddler while running away from Visalia traffic stop, police say

VISALIA, Calif. (KFSN) -- A begetter was arrested aft his two-year-old lad was abandoned successful a car arsenic helium ran from constabulary connected Thursday.

Visalia constabulary officers tried to propulsion implicit 20-year-old Amari Johnson astir 4:30 p.m. adjacent Harvard Avenue and South Central.

That's erstwhile investigators accidental Johnson pulled into a parking lot, jumped retired of the car, and ran away, leaving his lad behind.

Police accidental Johnson past jumped done an unfastened flat window.

During a hunt of that apartment, authorities recovered a shade AR-15 pistol and magazines.

Johnson is facing aggregate charges including firearm offenses, kid endangerment, and cause possession.