Two Arvada teenagers have been missing since Friday morning. Fourteen-year-old Tizoc Carrasco was last seen around 8 a.m. Friday in the 9200 block of West 80th Avenue, just east of Kipling Street, and police believe he was with Brayden King. Neither teen has been located since.
According to The Denver Post, Carrasco is described as 5 feet 3 inches tall with cherry red hair and brown eyes, and was last seen wearing gray sweatpants and a white shirt. Police believe he was with King, who is described as a white girl, 5 feet 4 inches tall, with brown hair and hazel eyes, last seen wearing pink sweatpants and a blue Broncos hoodie. Notably, the alert issued for King did not include a specified age or a specified last-seen location, leaving two key details absent from the public notice even as Carrasco's information was fully detailed.
The Colorado Bureau of Investigation activated the Saturday Missing Indigenous Person Alert for Carrasco, who is affiliated with the Apache Tribe per the CBI alert. The designation does not trigger a faster legal clock than a standard missing-child case. Under Senate Bill 22-150, police must notify CBI within two hours when a missing Indigenous person is a minor—the same two-hour period required for any missing child—and within eight hours for missing adults, according to Spirit of the Sun.
A Legal Framework Built for Speed
A Legal Framework Built for Speed That rapid-notification rule is set out in Colorado Revised Statutes § 16-2.7-103 and § 24-33.5-415.1, which require local agencies to notify CBI and enter missing-child information into the Colorado Crime Information Center database within two hours of a report, according to FindLaw. The Missing Indigenous Person Alert program itself was created under Senate Bill 22-150 in July 2022 and went active on December 30, 2022, establishing a dedicated statewide broadcast system for Indigenous residents facing credible health or safety risks. The same law also created Colorado's Office of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Relatives.
Separately, Colorado law under C.R.S. § 16-2.7-102 bars law enforcement from refusing to take a missing person report on the grounds that someone hasn't been missing for a set waiting period, according to the Colorado General Assembly. That provision guarantees immediate police intake regardless of a disappearance's timeframe.
Alert System Now Colorado's Most Used
The Missing Indigenous Person Alert has become Colorado's most frequently activated public safety alert, with 67 issued in 2025 and 17 more in the first few months of 2026, per 9News. Data cited by Colorado's Missing and Murdered Indigenous Relatives Task Force in March showed that all but five individuals issued such an alert since the program's inception have been safely located, the station reported, with two found deceased and three still missing out of all past state alerts. The same task force data found missing Indigenous cases in Colorado are disproportionately concentrated along the Front Range urban corridor, particularly within the Denver metropolitan area.
Alert System Now Colorado's Most Used The Missing Indigenous Person Alert has become Colorado's most frequently activated public safety alert, with 67 issued in 2025 and 17 more in the first few months of 2026, per 9News. Data cited by Colorado's Missing and Murdered Indigenous Relatives Task Force in March showed that all but five individuals issued such an alert since the program's inception have been safely located, the station reported, with two found deceased and three still missing out of all past state alerts. The same task force data found missing Indigenous cases in Colorado are disproportionately concentrated along the Front Range urban corridor, particularly within the Denver metropolitan area. Arvada has seen alert activations before. On September 22, Arvada police and CBI activated a statewide alert for an 8-year-old boy missing from the city, who was found safe 10 minutes later. A proposed Colorado law would overhaul how missing-person alerts are issued.
What Investigators Haven't Said
Arvada police have not released a vehicle description, travel route, or further detail on why King's age and last-seen location were omitted from the public alert. Senate Bill 22-150 calls for a public dashboard of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Relatives updates.
This case comes amid several other active Denver-area searches. Hoodline has also reported on a concurrent alert for Denver teen Brenda Maldonado, 17, as well as recent Indigenous alerts issued for Ariel Martin and Norman Brien in the metro area. Anyone with information on Carrasco or King's whereabouts is asked to call 911 or the Arvada Police Department at 303-980-7300.
