A South Florida mother accused of taking her three sons to across the country without their father's permission was being held on $300,000 bond Thursday in Miami-Dade jail.
Carrie Weingarth, 32, was charged with custody interference after she and boyfriend Christopher Coello took the three boys to California last month.
Weingarth became the subject of a multi-state search after she walked into Gulfstream Elementary School on Feb. 14 and without authorization from school officials and Pena took 12-year-old son Erin and disappeared along with his two brothers, Steven, age 8, and Derick, age 7.
After a massive search led by Miami-Dade Schools Police, Weingarth and Coello were arrested in Barstow, California. Weingarth and Coello, police said.
Steven Pena, who had custody of Erin, said he and Weingarth were in the middle of an ongoing custody dispute. Weingarth had custody of Steven and Derick, until a Friday custody hearing that gave father Steven Pena full custody of the younger children.
Miami-Dade School Police took custody of the boys and brought them home on Feb. 23rd.
