Alleged Deadbeat Dad Who’d Been a Fugitive for 10 Years Is Arrested While Getting off Cruise Ship

A man who authorities say owes about $100,000 in child support was taken into custody while disembarking a cruise ship in Miami, according to multiple reports.

Dominic Weaver of Louisville, Ky., was captured last week after being on the run for over 10 years, authorities say, according to Fox-affiliate WDRB, the New York Post and K105. 

Jefferson County Attorney Mike O’Connell told WDRB that Weaver was taken into custody in Florida by Miami police while getting off a cruise ship. Detectives from the Jefferson County child support division flew to Weaver and brought him to Louisville, where he is now in jail. 

Jail records show Weaver is being held at Louisville Metro Corrections on charges of flagrant non-support and a probation violation stemming from an unspecified felony offense.

Weaver appeared on 2019 and 2021 lists from the county of people who are allegedly delinquent in their child support payments. In 2021, according to the list, he owed over $99,000 in payments.

In 2019, he was sentenced to five years of probation due to flagrant nonsupport. The supervision was set to end in October of this year. 

PEOPLE reached out to the Jefferson County Attorney’s Office for more information but did not immediately hear back.

According to WDRB, the county is unsure when Weaver left town. 

“I don’t know when he left, but he fled the jurisdiction, and from the date of his sentence until today, and even today, he’s not paid one cent of child support,” O’Connell said. 

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O’Connell also said Weaver has four cases related to child support, two of which “are ready for indictment again of more felonies.”

O’Connell said he is going to “ask the court at the next opportunity to revoke his sentence and sentencing to four years in the state penitentiary,” per WDRB.

Weaver will appear in court on Jan. 6, 2025. PEOPLE was not immediately able to reach an attorney for him.