Missing Boy Found After 7 Years After Colorado Deputies Arrest Mom During Investigation

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DENVER (AP) — A boy who was allegedly taken by his mother, who didn’t have custody, seven years ago from Atlanta was found last month in Colorado after she was arrested in an unrelated incident in suburban Denver, authorities said Wednesday.

Rabia Khalid, 40, was arrested Feb. 23 after sheriff’s deputies were asked to investigate a suspected burglary taking place at a vacant home that was for sale, the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office said. The deputies found two children in a vehicle outside and a man and a woman coming out of the home who initially told them they were working for a realtor, it said in a press release.

Deputies, working with dispatchers, eventually determined that the woman was Khalid, who had an active warrant related to the 2017 disappearance of her son, Abdul Aziz Khan, who is now 14. The case was featured on Netflix’s “Unsolved Mysteries,” according to the U.S. Marshals Service, which had been helping look for the boy. Khan was the older of the two children found in the vehicle, it said.

Khalid along with the man were arrested on charges including second-degree kidnapping, forgery, and identity theft.

Khalid is being represented by a lawyer from the public defender’s office, which does not comment on its cases to the media.

The boy and the younger child, whose identity hasn’t been released, were taken into protective custody and decisions about where they will be placed will be made by the court, the sheriff’s office said.

The sheriff’s office said the boy’s family is asking for privacy at this time, but they expressed their gratitude in a statement.

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