Two Arvada teenagers have been missing since Friday morning. Fourteen-year-old Tizoc Carrasco was last seen around 8 a.m. Friday in the 9200 block of West 80th Avenue, just east of Kipling Street, and police believe he was with Brayden King. Neither teen has been located since.
According to The Denver Post, Carrasco is described as 5 feet 3 inches tall with cherry red hair and brown eyes, and was last seen wearing gray sweatpants and a white shirt. Police believe he was with King, who is described as a white girl, 5 feet 4 inches tall, with brown hair and hazel eyes, last seen wearing pink sweatpants and a blue Broncos hoodie. Notably, the alert issued for King did not include a specified age or a specified last-seen location, leaving two key details absent from the public notice even as Carrasco’s information was fully detailed.
The Colorado Bureau of Investigation activated the Saturday Missing Indigenous Person Alert for Carrasco, who is affiliated with the Apache Tribe per the CBI alert. The designation does not trigger a faster legal clock than a standard missing-child case. Under Senate Bill 22-150, police must notify CBI within two hours when a missing Indigenous person is a minor—the same two-hour period required for any missing child—and within eight hours for missing adults, according to Spirit of the Sun.
A Legal Framework Built for Speed
A Legal Framework Built for Speed That rapid-notification rule is set out in Colorado Revised Statutes § 16-2.7-103 and § 24-33.5-415.1, which require local agencies to notify CBI and enter missing-child information into the Colorado Crime Information Center database within two hours of a report, according to FindLaw. The Missing Indigenous Person Alert program itself was created under Senate Bill 22-150 in July 2022 and went active on December 30, 2022, establishing a dedicated statewide broadcast system for Indigenous residents facing credible health or safety risks. The same law also created Colorado’s Office of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Relatives…