Pueblo police on Thursday morning served a search warrant at the family home of Kelsie Schelling’s former boyfriend, who has long been implicated during a trip to meet him.
Sgt. Eric Gonzales, a Pueblo police spokesman, said investigators scoured a home on the 5100 block of Manor Ridge Drive on the city’s south side.
Gonzales said the family , Donthe Isiah Lucas, once lived at the home.
“They no longer live there,” Gonzales said.
Investigators excavated areas of the home’s backyard searching for undisclosed items. A photo showed a swarm of police working at the home.
BREAKING: Pueblo Police are searching the home of Kelsie Schelling's former boyfriend. She was last seen with him 4 years ago, never found.
— Lena Howland (@LenaHowland)
Schelling was 19 years old when she on Feb. 4, 2013. Lucas has been called a person of interest in her disappearance.
Schelling was on her way from Denver to meet Lucas in Pueblo when she went missing. A video camera at a Pueblo Walmart recorded her car as it was driven into the store’s parking lot at 12:05 a.m., the next day. Schnelling took the trip to show Lucas an ultrasound image.
Schelling’s vehicle was parked and left at the Walmart. The Colorado Bureau of Investigation says an unknown man came back and picked up the car, at black 2011 Chevrolet Cruze LTZ, which was later found on Feb. 7, 2013, at St. Mary Corwin Hospital.
“A surveillance video showed the vehicle arriving in the parking lot on Feb, 7, 2013, and an unknown person walking away,” CBI says on its cold case page about Schelling’s disappearance.
Schelling . Her family in 2015.
Search Warrant Executed in Schelling Case
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Gonzales said he wasn’t sure Thursday morning when the last search warrant was served in the case. It wasn’t clear what investigators were looking for at the home on Manor Ridge Drive.
Police said in a news release that they were “looking for any evidence that may help in the investigation, which is ongoing.” Authorities didn’t say if anything related to the case was found.
“This is an ongoing investigation,” Gonzales said. “They’ve been doing a lot of stuff. They’ve never stopped investigating this.”
