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It’s the same headline, different day for Colorado Representative Lauren Boebert’s son, Tyler, who was recently cited for child abuse after his two-year-old child was found wandering alone outside of his Weld County home…again.
The story was first reported by 9News, which was able to get in touch with the District 4 Congresswoman. Boebert told the news outlet that a “kind woman quickly and safely secured him, and authorities were called as a precaution.”
This is the second time in seven months that Tyler’s son has been found wandering alone outside the house. The previous incident, first reported by Westword, happened on July 11 under similar circumstances. Tyler was charged with criminal negligence where no death or injury occurred, a misdemeanor, with a trial scheduled for April. He now faces another round of the same charge after the incident last weekend, according to the Windsor Police Department.
In a statement to Westword last summer, Boebert had called the first incident “a miscommunication on monitoring my young grandson that recently led to him getting out of our house,” and said she was “confident this is a one-time incident that we have addressed as a family.”
Afer the second incident, the controversial congresswoman told 9NEWS there was “no excuse” for her grandson being found outside, and that she was “very frustrated this happened.”
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Tyler is the oldest of Boebert’s four children. He’s been making headlines since 2023, when it was reported that he’d once flipped his father’s SUV into a Garfield County creekbed, leaving a passenger in the vehicle with multiple concussions and a lacerated hand. Tyler was ticketed for careless driving, but Garfield County prosecutors eventually dropped the charges to a “defective vehicle for headlights” ticket under a plea deal. In January 2024, Tyler called the police and reported that his father and Boebert’s ex-husband, Jayson, was assaulting him at their former home in Garfield County, resulting in Jayson’s arrest.
In February 2024, Tyler was charged with felonies over a series of thefts from vehicles and for using stolen credit cards at gas stations in Rifle and Parachute. He faced over a dozen charges, eventually pleading guilty last October to a single charge of attempting to commit identity theft. After his plea, a 9th Judicial District judge gave Tyler a two-year deferred judgment, allowing the felony to be cleared from his record upon successfully completing his 24-month probation term. Under his court-ordered probation, he was banned from using controlled substances and had to perform community service.
Boebert revealed that she was about to become a grandmother in 2024. Tyler and his son live with her in Weld County, where she moved after she decided to move from the 3rd Congressional District for the 4th.
It is unclear whether either of Tyler’s recent negligence charges will affect his probation, which has about eight months left under the original sentence.
