UPDATES WITH BOY FOUND, IN CUSTODY IN COLORADO
(GARFIELD COUNTY, Colo.) A 16-year-old boy who went missing Tuesday night from southwest suburban Homer Glen was arrested during a traffic stop in Colorado early Friday.
Authorities in Garfield County, Colorado, contacted the Will County sheriff’s office about 2 a.m. after they arrested the boy during a traffic stop, the sheriff’s office said in a statement. Police in Colorado took him into custody after pulling over a red 2005 Jaguar with only one headlight.
Garfield County is about 200 miles west of Denver.
Charges against the teen were pending in Colorado, the sheriff’s office said. His parents were notified and will be traveling to Colorado for potential court proceedings, and to bring their son home.
Authorities were initially called at 9:45 p.m. Tuesday to conduct a welfare check on the boy, the sheriff’s office said. Deputies were told the boy, whose name has not been released, had been at church classes in Naperville with his mother when he left in a vehicle and did not return.
A deputy arrived at the boy’s home on Beaver Den Trail and found the boy at the kitchen table doing his homework, police said.
When the deputy stepped outside to report that he had spoken with the boy and he was fine, the 16-year-old left the house through a side door and drove off in the vehicle, police said. He then crashed about two blocks away at Beaver Den Trail and Oak Valley before running away.
During their search for the boy, deputies were notified on Wednesday that a Jaguar had been stolen from the driveway of a home in the 13000 block of West 167th Street in Homer Glen, police said. The owner had last seen it in the driveway on Tuesday evening.
The theft happened about a mile from where the boy had crashed the other vehicle. The sheriff’s office did not say whether the Jaguar pulled over in Colorado was the same as the one stolen, but detectives were “actively investigating the location of the vehicle.”