The missing Riviera Beach twins have been found safe in Georgia after the father, Carlos Peavy turned himself in to police Thursday morning, city police said.
“The mother is making arrangements to go pick her babies up,” said Rose Anne Brown, city police spokeswoman.
City police suspected Ocilla, Ga., a small city about 200 miles southeast of Atlanta, as one of the out-of-state places Peavy may have taken his 8-month-old twins, Marjor and Cariyah Peavy, Brown said. She did not specify why.
A warrant for Peavy’s arrest was issued Wednesday evening because of his history of domestic violence. The warrant carries a charge of interference with child custody, a third-degree felony, the lowest level in the Florida Statues.
The twins’ mother told West Palm Beach police that Peavy grabbed her neck and threw her to the ground when she was four months pregnant with them.
Charges were never filed against Peavy, according to court records.
Peavy was slated to drop the twins off to their mother Monday night at a Wal-Mart in Palm Beach County but never showed, sparking a multi-state search for the twins who were believed to be in danger.
The search was complicated — but not hindered — by the fact that Peavy has the right to be with the children. Consequently, the babies were considered endangered, not kidnapped. Brown called it a technicality.
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