Rep. Lauren Boebert’s 18-year-old son, Tyler Boebert, was arrested on Tuesday afternoon and is facing 22 charges, including several felony charges relating to a string of crimes in her Colorado district.

According to a Facebook post by the Rifle Police Department, the 18-year-old Boebert was arrested after a “recent string of vehicle trespass and property thefts” in Rifle, a town in Colorado’s 3rd congressional district.

According to Garfield County Jail’s records, the younger Boebert is facing four counts of criminal possession of a financial device, four counts of criminal possession of ID documents, and a count of conspiracy to commit a felony.

He’s also charged with four misdemeanor counts of ID theft, three misdemeanor counts of first-degree criminal trespass, and three misdemeanor counts of contributing to the delinquency of a minor.

In addition, he’s also charged with three counts of the petty offense of theft of less than $300.

  • neuracnu@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    8 months ago

    Boebert is a terrible legislator, but her kids’ behavior and life choices have little to do with the record and views by which her fitness to represent should be judged.

    There are so many good reasons not to vote for her. It validates Republican attacks on Hunter Biden as “how the game is played.”

    The least we can do is be a bit more nuanced about how we joke about it.

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      8 months ago

      Yes but we can see what sort of people she and her family are by how they behave. These children almost certainly had no good role models, no mentors, and no real future to speak of. They were ejected from her body and left to fend for themselves.

      Remember, the GOP wants EVERYONE to live like her and her family. So, yes, we can look at what she does at home and make some judgements on that.

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      8 months ago

      I think the big difference is that this kid is barely 18, and probably still lives at home. That means it was all happening under her roof.

      In comparison, Hunter has been an adult for decades.

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      8 months ago

      Yes but no, her progenitor Sarah Palin set the stage for this bs. Family Values and abstinence only got Bristol knocked up at 17, unmarried of course.

      Hold these shitbags accountable for all their actions.

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    8 months ago

    Hey guys, be fair. Maybe he was just stealing to support the baby he had with a child who was "over 14, so it wasn’t statutory rape, we totally swear.’

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        8 months ago

        He was 17. IIRC, it would’ve still been illegal for him to have sex with her if she was 14 or younger, so they were very careful to specify that she was “over 14.”

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          8 months ago

          Uh huh, sure she was.

          Every time anyone shares information about someone they are dating they lead with unsolicited information of why the relationship is technically legal. It’s how you know the love is pure. \s

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        8 months ago

        I have successfully avoided seeing Hunter’s (apparently impressive) penis.

        Plus, there’s precedent consider Lauren’s ex-husband exposed himself to teenage girls (including Lauren) in a bowling alley.

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      8 months ago

      I suppose you’d prefer the orange traitor that gives out classified documents to our enemies. Getting hung up on Biden’s son when Trump is a very literal traitor to our country and handing out classified documents, is asinine.

      And no, I don’t think shitting on Boebert’s son is necessary. I’m tired of the hit-pieces on people’s families. She’s a dumpster fire without any help. Sounds like her son is the one that needs help.

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    8 months ago

    I bet you her family and ilk blame people of color for all the crime, while their little shit head, white bread thief of a son is running around breaking into cars

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    8 months ago

    If I had no idea who they were, I would still look at that group photo and think they all look entirely untrustworthy and make assumptions about them being terrible people. Or that they were a fake family posing for the example photo in a photo frame.

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    8 months ago

    That poor kid.

    As much as my sympathy usually lies with the wronged party (those against whom he has committed crimes) it is impossible for me to believe that having those two as parents is immaterial to their son’s criminal acting out now.

    “An abnormal response to an abnormal situation is absolutely normal,” as the saying goes, and I can’t help but think that’s at least part of what’s happening here: that while Lauren and Jayson Boebert have spent their son’s growing up years off chasing money and power and elected office and doing whatever else they do, that kid has been alternately bringing himself up or staring crazy in the face, depending on who was in the house at the time.

    I feel bad for him, to be honest.