Denver, CO
AMBER Alert issued for 4-year-old ‘forcibly’ taken by man with violent history in Adams County, CBI says
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.
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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.
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Pedestrian fatally hit by Frontier airplane departing Denver for Los Angeles, flight canceled after
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DENVER (AP) — A Frontier Airlines plane hit a pedestrian on the runway of the Denver International Airport during takeoff, airport authorities said, sparking an engine fire and forcing passengers to evacuate.
The plane, on route from Denver to Los Angeles International Airport, “reported striking a pedestrian during takeoff at DEN at approximately 11:19 p.m. on Friday,” the airport’s official X account wrote.
Neither the airport nor the airline has disclosed the pedestrian’s condition.
“We’re stopping on the runway,” the pilot tells the control tower according to the site ATC.com. “We just hit somebody. We have an engine fire.”
The pilot tells the air traffic controller they have “231 souls” on board and that and “individual was walking across the runway.”
The air traffic controller responds that they are “rolling the trucks now” before the pilot tells the tower they “have smoke in the aircraft. We are going to evacuate on the runway.”
Frontier Airlines said in a statement flight 4345 was the one involved in the collision and that “smoke was reported in the cabin and the pilots aborted takeoff.” It was not clear whether the smoke was linked to the crash with the pedestrian.
“The Airbus A321 was carrying 224 passengers and seven crew members,” the airline said. “We are investigating this incident and gathering more information in coordination with the airport and other safety authorities.”
Passengers were then evacuated via slides and the emergency crew bused them to the terminal.
Denver Airport said the National Transportation Safety Board had been notified and that runway 17L, where the incident took place, will remain closed while an investigation is conducted.
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