The 18-year-old son of Colorado Congresswoman Lauren Boebert was arrested Wednesday afternoon and faces 22 charges in connection with a series of car burglaries and property thefts.
Tyler Boebert was taken into custody Wednesday around 2:30 p.m., according to police in the town of Rifle, Colorado.
He faces 22 different charges, including four counts of criminal possession of a financial device, three counts of contributing to the delinquency of a minor and three counts of theft under $300.
The other charges range from four misdemeanor counts of criminal possession of IDs, a misdemeanor count of conspiracy to commit a crime, and more than fifteen different misdemeanor and minor charges.
Boebert is listed as a current inmate at the Garfield County Jail, according to their data. Bond is not ready for his release yet.
The 18-year-old son of Colorado Congresswoman Lauren Boebert was arrested Wednesday afternoon and faces 22 charges in connection with a series of car burglaries and property thefts
Local police cited the recent string of vehicle violations and property thefts in the city.
Rifle Police Department posted on his Facebook page Wednesday that the investigation is ongoing.
DailyMail.com has contacted a spokesperson for Congressman Boebert for comment.
This isn’t the first time the younger Boebert — who shares a son with an ex-girlfriend — has run afoul of controversy.
In April last year, a friend of Tyler’s claimed that an accident in which Tyler was driving left him with multiple concussions and a debilitating hand injury – and accused the political family of covering it up.
Noble D’Amato, 19, who was hospitalized with a concussion and a severely torn hand after Tyler, now 18, took a turn too fast and threw his father’s SUV into a creek bed at 11:30 PM on September 17, 2022.
D’Amato claimed the injuries prevented him from continuing his welding career.
“I still have problems with my hand,” he said Westword, a Denver-based publication. ‘I almost got my thumb cut off. It’s kept me from getting a welding job because I can’t hold a TIG torch anymore. I am now a personal care provider.”
Tyler Boebert was taken into custody Wednesday around 2:30 p.m., according to police in the town of Rifle, Colorado
The Boerberts in better times, with the couple’s four children, including Tyler (center, back row), who has accused his father of physical abuse
D’Amato says the younger Boebert was “stone cold sober” at the time of the accident. “And he still turned us around,” D’Amato said. “That shows how much he just doesn’t care. He was driving so damn fast.”
His backpack allegedly contained non-prescription Xanax pills and a “silver marijuana grinder containing a small amount of marijuana,” leading the 19-year-old to be charged with unlawful possession of a schedule IV controlled substance and drug paraphernalia.
‘I remember waking up with blood pouring from my hand. I had put my hands up to protect myself and got really confused at the window or something. I was just happy to be alive,” D’Amato said.
Tyler, Westword reported, was given a citation for careless driving, which was later changed to a “defective vehicle for headlights” citation after the teen accepted a plea deal.
He had to complete a court-ordered driving school called “Alive at 25” and attend a court hearing on Monday, which is how news of the accident got out.
Boebert’s congressional office angered D’Amato by issuing a statement to Westword, downplaying his injuries in an April 4 statement.
“The reported injury was superficial at best and was addressed by medical professionals out of an abundance of caution,” Boebert’s office said.
D’Amato said the statement was “bulls**t” and said it was likely the congressman trying to sweep the severity of his injuries under the rug.
Lauren Boebert’s congressional office (pictured) angered crash victim Noble D’Amato, 19, by releasing a statement downplaying the extent of his injuries after the congressman’s son threw a vehicle into a creek bed
Lauren and Jayson married in 2005 and share four sons together (pictured). They filed for divorce in May 2023
“She never liked me,” D’Amato said. “But that doesn’t give them the right to try to hide the fact that I was hurt. They just don’t give a fuck. It’s the whole family.’
The statement from Boebert’s office also said that “the incident involved two minors,” which is inaccurate as D’Amato was 19 when the accident occurred.
When it happened, Tyler was still 17 and underage, so his name was redacted.
When he turned 18 in March 2023, the official report and file became public.
The young man has also had to deal with an allegedly abusive father, from whom Congressman Boebert was granted a restraining order earlier this month.
Lauren, 37, and Jayson, 43, married in 2005 and split in 2023, but the couple still made headlines during what appears to be a difficult divorce.
In January, Jayson was arrested and charged just days after the couple was involved in a domestic violence incident at a Colorado restaurant.
A few days later, he allegedly attacked Tyler during an altercation over laundry at their home in Silt, Colorado, an arrest warrant showed.
Lauren and Jayson married in 2005. They met when she was working at McDonald’s at the age of 16. He was 22 at the time.
This booking photo provided by the Garfield County, Colo., Sheriff’s Office shows Jayson Boebert
“Tyler described Jayson shoving him by placing a hand near his throat/neck and pushing back,” Deputy Cyd Ramirez wrote.
A Colorado judge issued the order in early February and also included protections for the couple’s three youngest sons.
‘Tyler became upset at that point,” Ramirez continued, adding that “a physical altercation quickly ensued between Jayson and him.”
As the fight between father and son escalated, he added, the father of four allegedly “put his right thumb in Tyler’s mouth.”
The force of the maneuver, the Colorado officer claimed, made the teen fear his father would “pull his tooth out.”
At some point during the struggle, Ramirez wrote, Tyler managed to get out his cell phone and call his mother, who became a grandmother last year after Tyler fathered a boy with his also-teenage girlfriend.
The rioter reportedly responded by telling the boy to call the police, who eventually arrived on the scene
Jayson was charged with assault, disorderly conduct, obstructing a police officer and pointing a firearm, and was released on $2,500 bond, according to court records.
In her request for a restraining order, she mentioned their Jan. 6 argument at a restaurant, where he claimed she hit him — a claim he later retracted and which Police ultimately said it was unfounded.
Jayson was uncooperative when police responded to the restaurant led to charges of disorderly conduct, third-degree criminal trespass and obstructing a peace officer, court records show.
Jayson later told The Associated Press that he was the “victim” of the incident.
“I would never hurt Lauren, I just want to move on and be at peace,” the station said in a text message.
He also accused his ex-wife of using the restraining order to “justify” her move to a new congressional district.