ADAMS COUNTY, Colo. — An AMBER Alert has been issued for a missing 4-year-old boy who was allegedly taken by a man who has a violent history, according to an alert from the Colorado Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Friday evening.

According to the alert, Sean Chavez, 4, was “forcibly removed from his residence” by 45-year-old Jeremy Chavez. The boy has “medical impairments,” the alert reads, and requires medication that he does not have with him.

Jeremy Chavez is “known to be violent” and it is “unknown if he is armed,” CBI said.

Denver7 is working to establish a timeline for this developing situation, but CBI said Sean Chavez and Jeremy Chavez were last seen around 4 p.m. At 6:20 p.m., Jeremy Chavez was seen driving a stolen 2024 black Chevy Silverado with Texas license plate 817-X970 near 109th and Dahlia, CBI says.

Jeremy Chavez is described as a white man with brown hair and brown eyes. He stands 5 feet, 11 inches tall and weighs about 225 pounds. Sean Chavez has green eyes and blonde hair.

While they have the same last name, it is not yet clear if they are related. Joanna Small, public information officer with the Commerce City Police Department, said police believe they are a biological father and son, but that has not been confirmed as of publishing time.

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Denver7’s Claire Lavezzorio was at a scene near E. 109th Avenue and Jasper Street in Commerce City, where a person — suspected to be Jeremy Chavez — is refusing to come out of a home, despite police and SWAT orders over a megaphone.

“Jeremy, come out of the house with your hands up. You are under arrest by Commerce City police,” Lavezzorio heard police say over the loudspeaker at the scene.

Joanna Small, public information officer with the Commerce City Police Department, said authorities were able to locate the stolen pickup truck and use stop sticks to bring it to a halt, but “no individuals were inside the vehicle when we recovered it.” She confirmed the truck was recovered near the home around 109th and Jasper.

Police initially responded to the home after a suspect ran through an open back door. The homeowners or renters, who were inside, fled out of the house and are safe.

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Small said police believe the suspect in the home is Jeremy Chavez, but they have not been able to verify that. She explained that the department is “working it as if it is” related to the AMBER Alert and missing 4-year-old.

No other details were available as of 9:30 p.m. about the missing boy.

Denver7’s Claire Lavezzorio asked if police would change their approach if they learned the boy was inside the home.

“One hundred percent,” Small answered. “If it’s a hostage situation, it’s going to be very different than if it’s just an individual in the house by himself. Without us having that information, we have to work the situation very carefully.”

This is a developing story and will be updated.

The Denver Broncos organization hosted its second open house for the community on Thursday to present plans for the new stadium at Burnham Yard. The Broncos said the plans include parking, public transportation, a community open space and tailgating on game days. 

“I love it, I’m happy, no, really I am,” said neighboring resident Peggy Sandoval.   

The organization not only wants input from the community on the plans but also wants to educate them on why they believe the Broncos stadium will bring entertainment, community, and football together.

“We are laser-focused on delivering this site,” said Denver Broncos president Damani Leech. “We want it to be a great place for fans to go on gameday, but also a place every day, for this community that surrounds it, but also for the City of Denver.”

The proposed design for the new stadium at Burnham Yard calls for 58 acres in a decommissioned railyard off I-25 between 6th and 13th avenues to the north and south, and Seminole Road and Osage Street to the west and east. The team says it offers an accessible location in the heart of Denver while highlighting the site’s historic character as part of the redevelopment. 

“It’s not that I’m not open to it, it’s just that I think we need to be careful about how we bring it into the community and how we protect people who have lived here in terms of their property values and being safe from developers,” said Christina Eyre, communications officer for Osage Lofts residence. 

Plans beyond the stadium include restaurants, entertainment venues, retail space, housing, and offices.   

“It’s important for this to be a multi-modal transportation hub. We have about 7,000 parking spaces at the current stadium that we control. I think our expectation is that we have a similar amount here. We plan on investing in and with RTD to make sure transit is avaliable option for fans on gameday,” said Leech. 

Initial concepts provided by the Broncos show developers are addressing traffic concerns in the La Alma Lincoln neighborhood. The light rail will be relocated to establish walkways and bicycle connections. 

“I think it’s going to be super important that the space inside the yard is connected to La Alma Lincoln Park,” said Eyre.

Leech said that there is no specific timeframe for when stadium renderings will be ready. They told CBS Colorado that they do anticipate entering into a community benefits agreement sometime in the next year, with a timeline to break ground on the project in 2027, and completion set for 2031.

A Denver judge this week ordered an area pastor, Tilo Lopez, to pay a family $311,000 in restitution after Lopez was criminally prosecuted in connection with a construction project he said he would do for the family.

In the restitution ruling, the judge noted that Lopez charged the family 542% more than he paid for home demolition that was part of the construction project.

“This man lied to us,” said Miguel Lara, whose elderly parents, Ventura and Elsie Lara, put their trust in Lopez, who calls himself “A missionary.” “I love Jesus,” Lopez previously said. Beyond his ministry, Lopez also ran a construction company, Remodeling Specialists LLC.

The Lara family knew Lopez for decades as a minister, and said they had faith in him due to his religious background.

“We just thought him being a man of God, we trusted him completely,” said Elsie Lara, 77.

In 2020, the Laras signed contracts with Lopez allowing him to tear down the home next door to theirs, which they owned, and then build a duplex so three generations of the Lara family could live side by side. Elsie Lara said she and her husband, who is 81, took out a $520,000 loan to pay Lopez and finance the construction project. They say it was their life savings.

But after demolishing their home, they say the work stopped and Lopez “disappeared,” despite the fact they paid Lopez at least $250,000 up front.

Denver prosecutors charged Lopez criminally, and last September he pleaded guilty to filing a false tax return — a felony — and attempting to commit theft — a misdemeanor. He was sentenced to 12 years probation.

At a restitution hearing last week, a demolition contractor said Lopez hired him for $14,000 to demolish the home nextdoor to the Laras, but then Lopez charged the Lara family $90,000 for the demolition, a 542% markup.

“I thought that was crazy,” said demolition contractor Dennis Olivas.

Olivas testified Lopez told him not to reveal to the family how much Lopez had paid him for the demo job.

Another witness at the restitution hearing, an investigator with the Denver District Attorney’s office, said Lopez paid a subcontractor $30,000 for asbestos abatement on the demolition, but then charged the Laras $150,000 for the work.

On Tuesday, Denver District Court Judge Jay Grant ordered Lopez to repay the Laras $311,191.64 to cover their losses and accrued interest.

Lopez’s lawyer, Grant Grosgebauer, said Lopez would likely appeal the restitution order. The attorney did not offer any further comment or statements about the restitution order.

Tilo Lopez did not testify during the restitution hearing and has not publicly discussed the case or what happened.

Both Elsie and Ventura Lara had hoped to retire, but say the losses to Lopez have forced them both to continue working.

“The situation he put us in now,” said Ventura Lara, “is we are living paycheck to paycheck because we don’t have any money to fall back on.”

His son, Miguel Lara, told CBS Colorado: “It was my dad’s dream to save all that money and have something for his kids and be able to retire, and now it’s the opposite.”

The family says if they collect the $311,000 in restitution, it will help them pay down their construction loan, but they say they are mostly pleased that Tilo Lopez is being held accountable for his actions.

The family still pays $4,900 a month to a lender for loan payments for the duplex that was never built. They say they hope their experience serves as a warning to others to thoroughly check out contractors they plan to use, do diligent research and if something does go wrong, don’t be afraid to speak up and seek help.

“The only fault we had,” said the Lara’s daughter, Juanita Aliste-Munoz, “is we believed in a minister that talked highly about God.”