Lauren Boebert's Son Charged With Misdemeanor Child Abuse

According to records obtained from the Windsor Police Department and confirmed by the Weld County District Attorney's office, Tyler Boebert, the eldest of controversial Republican Congresswoman Lauren Boebert's four sons, was cited on Friday, July 11, by the Windsor Police Department and faces a misdemeanor charge of child abuse.

Details about the circumstances that led to the criminal citation were not publicly available as of July 25. According to a court summons, the child-abuse charge Tyler faces is criminal negligence where no death or injury occurred. Congresswoman Boebert characterized the incident as "a miscommunication on monitoring my young grandson that recently led to him getting out of our house."

It's the latest in a string of law enforcement encounters for the twenty-year-old over the past few years. In September 2022, Tyler flipped his father's SUV into a Garfield County creek bed, resulting in his passenger suffering multiple concussions and a severely lacerated hand. He was ticketed for careless driving, with Garfield County prosecutors eventually dropping his case down to a "defective vehicle for headlights" ticket under a plea deal.

In January 2024, Tyler called the police and reported that his father, Jayson, was assaulting him at their home in Garfield County, resulting in the elder Boebert's arrest. The arrest affidavit said Jayson allegedly "pushed Tyler to the ground and pushed his thumb into his mouth."

On February 27, 2024, Tyler was hit with felony charges for a series of thefts from vehicles and for using stolen credit cards at local gas stations in Rifle and Parachute. He was hit with more than 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 his felony to be cleared from his record upon successfully completing his 24-month probation term. Under his court-ordered probation, Tyler was to complete eighty hours of community service, and he was banned from using controlled substances.

It's unclear whether Tyler's citation constitutes a breach of his probationary term, which still has over one year left. The police report is not a public record, according to the Weld County DA's office, and no documents have been filed with the court beyond a July 11 summons provided to Westword by Windsor police. He is due in Weld County Court at 1 p.m. on September 8.

Tyler has one child, a son born in June 2023, making Lauren Boebert a grandmother at 36. She moved to Windsor in Weld County from the Western Slope when, as a second-term U.S. Representative for CD3, she decided to run in CD4; she won that seat in 2024.

In a statement to Westword, Congresswoman Boebert describes Tyler's latest legal entanglement as a "one-time incident" with "no injury or physical abuse involved," but says her family has met with Child Protective Services.

"Tyler has been doing a great job getting his life on track as a father and citizen over the past year; unfortunately, this event stems from a miscommunication on monitoring my young grandson that recently led to him getting out of our house. As the citation states, there was absolutely no injury or physical abuse involved. Our family has already met with CPS to ensure we are continuing to provide a safe environment for my boys and my grandson; I am confident this is a one-time incident that we have addressed as a family," Boebert's full statement reads.