CHAFFEE COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) — The Chaffee County Sheriff’s Office says a man wanted out of Thornton has been arrested after leading deputies in a chase. Deputies allege he kidnapped his child, whom he didn’t have custody of.
According to the sheriff’s office, 46-year-old Phillip Lee Torres was out on bond, facing charges for “serious child sex assault and kidnapping charges that he was about to go to trial on.”
The sheriff’s office says he had allegedly cut his ankle monitor off and ran off with his child without permission from the child’s caregivers or the state on Sept. 25. The sheriff’s office stated that it was believed Torres was fleeing the state, possibly to Mexico…