A 44-year-old Broomfield man has been missing since Tuesday night, and police fear he may be in the middle of a mental health crisis. Conrad Johnson was last seen around 8 p.m. in the 13900 block of Pinehurst Circle, wearing a green T-shirt, blue shorts and sandals. He is white, stands 5-foot-10, weighs about 185 pounds, and has brown or hazel eyes, and investigators believe he is on foot.
The Broomfield Police Department is asking anyone who spots Johnson to call 911 immediately, or to reach its non-emergency line at 303-438-6400, the same number designated for media questions about the case. The Colorado Bureau of Investigation issued the notice as an Endangered Missing Alert, a designation the agency reserves for missing people who don't meet the legal thresholds for an AMBER or Senior Alert but who still face clear risk, according to the Colorado Bureau of Investigation.
Search Centers on Broomfield's Broadlands Neighborhood
Pinehurst Circle sits inside the Broadlands, a residential development in northern Broomfield's 80023 zip code that borders community parks, a golf course and a network of open-space trails, according to property records reviewed by Zillow. That mix of walkable green space and trail access often shapes how searches unfold when a missing person is believed to be traveling on foot, as Johnson is.
Why Patrol Officers, Not Clinicians, Responded First
Johnson disappeared around 8 p.m., just before the nightly cutoff for Broomfield's dedicated behavioral-health responders. The department's Co-Response program, known as BCORE, pairs a clinical supervisor and three licensed clinicians with officers on mental health calls, handling roughly 80 incidents a month since it launched in July 2024, per the City and County of Broomfield. Those clinicians work 10-hour shifts and typically finish by 9:30 p.m., meaning an evening report like Johnson's initially falls to patrol officers, with a clinician following up the next day.
Colorado's Backlog of Missing-Persons Cases
Johnson's case adds to a statewide pattern that advocates call significant. Colorado law enforcement agencies logged 1,278 active missing-persons cases as of July 2024, and state bureau data cited by the Denver Gazette shows nearly half of people reported missing remain unaccounted for a year later. Separate CBI records reviewed by 9News found close to 600 people across Colorado had been missing for longer than a year as of 2023.
State protocol requires local departments to log missing-person reports into statewide and national crime databases regardless of whether a public alert is issued, according to guidelines cited by the Colorado State University Police Department. That means Johnson's information is already circulating among agencies statewide even as the public search in Broomfield continues.
A 24-Hour Crisis Line for Those in Distress
Colorado consolidated its Colorado Crisis Services line with the 988 Colorado Mental Health Line effective July 1, 2025, creating a single around-the-clock contact point for residents in crisis or those trying to help someone else, according to the Colorado Behavioral Health Administration. The state recorded one of the nation's highest 988 contact rates in 2024, at 36.1 interactions per 1,000 residents, and counselors have fielded 584,533 calls, texts and chats statewide during the line's first four years through mid-2026, per Axios.
Broomfield police had not released additional details about the search as of Wednesday morning. Anyone with information on Johnson's whereabouts is urged to contact investigators right away, given the endangerment concerns cited in the state's alert.
