PETALUMA (BCN) -- What began as a traffic stop for running a stop sign in Petaluma quickly turned into a high-speed chase Tuesday that led to the driver's arrest a day later in connection with felony child endangerment.
Officers observed a vehicle drive through a stop sign on Windsor Drive at about 3:41 p.m. that was travelling at an estimated 35 miles per hour.
When the officer attempted to make a traffic stop on Windsor Drive and D Street, the vehicle pulled over briefly, long enough for the officer to approach the vehicle and see it had three occupants: the driver, a front passenger and small child in a car seat.
Then the driver accelerated at a high rate of speed eastbound on D Street.
The officer pursued for less than a mile until terminating it, when the driver turned into a street busy with children nearby.
Based on the license plate of the vehicle, police determined the owner of the car was registered to an address on I Street, where police found that the two adults that had been in the vehicle were the child's parents.
Police impounded the vehicle but the driver, 21-year-old Stephen A. Akers, had fled his home.
Akers turned himself in Wednesday at the Petaluma Police Department without providing a statement why he evaded officers, who later determined that Akers does not have a license to drive.
Police arrested Akers on suspicion of felony evading and child endangerment.
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