Mikal Malik Walker, 31, of Philadelphia, is due before a Falls Township judge on Aug. 19, on two counts the Falls Township Police Department filed after a child was found alone in a parked car outside a gym on Plaza Boulevard. He spent part of one day this month in the Bucks County Correctional Facility. He was out again before that day ended.
The state’s public court record carries the part of the story the first accounts did not reach. Bail was set on the morning of Aug. 10 at 10 percent of $250,000, and a professional bondsman posted a $250,000 surety bond the same day. On the docket, the confinement entry opens and closes on Aug. 10.
Nothing has been decided. The case is listed as active and awaiting a preliminary hearing, and the two charges sit on the file without a disposition.
The call from the parking lot
Both counts carry an offense date of Aug. 1, a Saturday. Officers were sent that afternoon to the lot outside the Planet Fitness on Plaza Boulevard after a 911 call about a young child on his own in a silver Buick…