The 18-year-old son of United States Representative Lauren Boebert has been slapped with 22 criminal charges in Rifle, Colorado with five of those being felonies. Among them are four first-degree criminal trespassing of an automobile, so it sounds like he might have been breaking into or entering unlocked cars without permission to steal valuables inside.
Someone stole the mayor of Denver's car and the whole thing was swept under the carpet.
On the evening of February 27, the Rifle Police Department announced on Facebook the arrest and charges filed against Tyler Jay Boebert, who is the oldest child of Lauren Boebert and her ex-husband. He was arrested at about 2:30 pm with the police department saying the area has seen “a recent string of vehicle trespass and property thefts.”
Colorado has had quite the car theft problem for years, although that's been mostly centered in the Denver area. However, Rifle is a long way from that epicenter of crime, which might have been why police were so focused on snuffing out their own emerging theft wave. (RELATED: Bomb Explodes Outside Republican Attorney General's Office)
As pointed out by the New York Post, this isn't Tyler Boebert's first brush with the law. Back in 2022 he picked up a “careless driving causing bodily injury” ticket after flipping his father's SUV into a creek bed, injuring a 19-year-old passenger.
However, that charge was dropped and Boebert was hit with a “defective vehicle for headlights” charge instead, although he reportedly never showed for his court date. He called later and rescheduled, showing up virtually. (RELATED: Global Warming Protesters Begin Torching Vehicles)
Tyler is a father, his girlfriend giving birth to a son in June 2023. So it's not entirely shocking that her oldest is in trouble yet again.
Police are being pretty tight-lipped about the circumstances surrounding Tyler Boebert's arrest, perhaps because they're still building a case against him and want it to stick. There's not telling how this latest revelation might affect his mom's plan to run for office in Colorado's 4th Congressional District.
This article originally appeared in The Auto Wire. The opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the positions of American Liberty News. Republished with permission.
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