{"id":35213,"date":"2023-03-17T21:47:30","date_gmt":"2023-03-18T03:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/boy-reported-missing-in-cortez-found-asleep-at-home\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T02:23:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T08:23:15","slug":"boy-reported-missing-in-cortez-found-asleep-at-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/boy-reported-missing-in-cortez-found-asleep-at-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Boy reported missing in Cortez found asleep at home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=128787ad-3319-5157-b8e5-3ba8545f7917&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" alt=\"Blotter lights\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Blotter lights<\/span><span class=\"credit\">cca<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>A 7-year-old boy reported missing prompted an alert and neighborhood search Friday afternoon in Cortez.<\/p>\n<p>But the boy was actually never missing, and had been sleeping in a room in the house, said Lt. Andy Brock.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe is a small boy and was taking a nap under a bunch of covers that hid him,\u201d Brock said.<\/p>\n<p>The mother did not see him, and the boy\u2019s location was also missed by an officer who searched the room, including under the bed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe mother is feeling a bit sheepish, and we learned to check rooms better,\u201d Brock said.<\/p>\n<p>The boy was reported missing around 2 p.m. by his mother from his home at Sleeping Ute Apartments, at 516 Madison St.<\/p>\n<p>A message sent out by the Montezuma County Emergency Alert System stated the was last seen at the apartment complex at 1:18 p.m. He was wearing a light-gray hoodie, dark gray sweatpants and checkered vans.<\/p>\n<p>Brock said the boy was found at home at 2:55 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Brock said every officer on duty was searching for the boy, and many citizens also organized search parties.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was great to see the community coming out to help,\u201d Brock said. \u201cThe mother was very worried. We\u2019re glad it all turned out ok.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Nixle alert generated a few tips but did not result in finding the boy, Brock said. Nearby schoolyards and playgrounds were searched.<\/p>\n<p>Security video from the Sleeping Ute Apartments was being reviewed by police for information on whether he left on his own or with somebody, but no clues were immediately found.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe has been located,\u201d Brock said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>citizens launched neighborhood search Friday afternoon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16302,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[21,28,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-35213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cortez","tag-headlines","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35213"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82901,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35213\/revisions\/82901"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35213"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=35213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}