Two people are in custody after a 14-year-old boy kidnapped seven years ago from Georgia was found safe in Douglas County last week, sheriff’s officials said.
Rabia Khalid, the 40-year-old mother of Abdul Aziz Khan, and Elliot Blake Bourgeois, 42, were arrested on Sunday, Feb. 23, by Douglas County deputies and are being held on $1 million bonds, according to the sheriff’s office.
Douglas County Sheriff Darren Weekly said in a Wednesday morning news conference that Khan went missing in 2017 after it appeared his mother, Khalid, was going to lose an ongoing custody battle.
Khalid has been charged with seven felonies, including conspiracy to commit second-degree kidnapping, attempting to influence a public servant, identity theft, custody violations, making a false report to police and criminal possession of identity documents, according to court records. She also faces two misdemeanor charges of trespassing and criminal impersonation.
Bourgeois’ charges were not immediately available Wednesday, but 23rd Judicial District Attorney George Brauchler said in the news conference that the 42-year-old faces 12 felony charges, including at least one count of kidnapping, and two misdemeanors.
Brauchler said Bourgeois was charged with kidnapping while Khalid was charged with conspiracy to kidnap because “one of the nuances of the law is that you cannot kidnap your own child.”
The two were arrested after Douglas County deputies responded to a trespassing call on Kelliwood Way in Highlands Ranch at about 3:37 p.m. on Feb. 23, according to the sheriff’s office.
Khalid and Bourgeois were inside the home when deputies arrived and two children were sitting in a car parked on the driveway. It’s not clear what they were doing in the neighborhood or the house, Weekly said.
The group gave deputies multiple fake identities, according to body camera footage shown in the news conference, and it took deputies five hours to identify them and discover Khalid had a warrant out for her arrest.
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