A "human skin" teddy bear found outside a gas station in Victorville over the weekend turned out to be a practical joke, according to authorities, and an arrest was made.

An arrest has been made after what appeared to be a teddy bear wrapped in human flesh was left outside a Victorville, California convenience store, prompting a law enforcement investigation Sunday.

Investigators in California responded to reports of human remains spotted outside a convenience store on Sunday and found a teddy bear purportedly wrapped in human skin, though it now appears, claims one company,