DOUGLAS COUNTY, Colo. — A toddler lacking for seven years was discovered alive in Douglas County, the sheriff’s workplace introduced Wednesday.
Abdul Aziz Khan went lacking when he was 7 years previous. He was discovered on Feb. 23, 2025 at 3:37 p.m. when Douglas County sheriff’s deputies have been despatched to a house on Kelliwood Means in Highlands Ranch to research a reported housebreaking. Two individuals allegedly broke into a house that was vacant and listed on the market. The home-owner was monitoring safety cameras on the time and referred to as the police.
When Douglas County sheriff’s deputies arrived, they discovered two youngsters inside a automotive parked within the driveway of the house. A person and lady got here out of the home, claiming they have been working with a realtor for the house, the sheriff’s workplace stated. Deputies labored for hours to verify the person and lady’s identities.
The girl — Rabia Khalid, 40 — had a warrant out for kidnapping. Deputies decided that the older little one within the automobile was reportedly kidnapped seven years in the past. The Douglas County Sheriff’s Workplace didn’t say whether or not the youthful little one was linked to the kidnapping.
Khalid didn’t have full custody of Abdul Aziz Khan, in accordance with the sheriff’s workplace, however she’s accused of abducting her son from Atlanta.
The person along with her on the Douglas County house was Elliot Blake Bourgeois, 42. They each have been arrested and booked into the Douglas County Jail on expenses of second diploma kidnapping, forgery, id theft, offering false data to authorities and trespassing. Their bond was set at $1 million every, the Douglas County Sheriff’s Workplace stated.
The youngsters on scene have been taken into protecting custody, in accordance with the sheriff’s workplace, and the court docket will resolve the place they are going to go subsequent. The id of the youthful little one is not going to be launched at the moment, the Douglas County Sheriff’s Workplace stated.
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