Left: Darvin Flores Caballeros following his arrest by deputies with the Walton County Sheriff’s Office (WCSO). Right: Flores Caballeros being arrested in Santa Rosa Beach (WCSO).
A 20-year-old Virginia man accused of abandoning a newborn baby in the snow shortly after viciously attacking the child’s mother has been arrested nearly 1,000 miles away in Florida.
Darvin Flores Caballeros was taken into custody Thursday morning on an out of state fugitive warrant, authorities announced. Flores Caballeros currently remains in Florida and is awaiting extradition back to Virginia where he is facing one count each of malicious wounding, strangulation, assault and battery on a family member and petit larceny, as well as two counts of child endangerment. He is also subject to an emergency protective order.
According to a news release from the Walton County, Florida, Sheriff’s Office, there was an active warrant out for Flores Caballeros’ arrest stemming from an incident that took place in Fairfax County, Virginia, on Feb. 12.
