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Arrest documents from a kidnapping incident in Fountain last week allege that a 28-year-old man taught a 7-year-old boy how to smoke marijuana, got him high, and smoked methamphetamine around him. 

Kristopher Lockit was arrested Sunday on suspicion of kidnapping, contributing to the delinquency of a minor and reckless endangerment after the boy had been reported missing. According to arrest records, Lockit told police he had seen the child across the street from a 7-Eleven at 601 S. Santa Fe. Ave. a week ago. Lockit learned the boy's name Saturday at Connie's Cupboard, a thrift store that gives to the homeless, at 594 Santa Fe. Lockit and the two started hanging out that same day, walking by a creek. 

Lockit had a friend, Kristopher Davidson, pick up him and the child, arrest papers show. The adults were in the front of the vehicle and the boy was in the back when Lockit and Davidson started smoking marijuana. 

According to arrest papers, Lockit told police he gave some marijuana to the child to smoke. They were smoking marijuana resin and the child was having difficulty getting it to light. Lockit helped the boy "light the marijuana, lit it for him and demonstrated to the boy how to inhale and hold it in." Lockit told police he felt the child was high because he "had mellowed out."

Afterward, the three wanted to spend time at Davidson's house in Falcon. Davidson drove the child to his home so he could ask his parents for permission to hang out. Lockit told the boy to "tell his parents that he wanted to stay a couple nights at a friend's house."

The child asked his mother, identified as 34-year-old LaAmber Miller, if he could spend the night at someone's house. According to arrest records, Miller reported the boy missing the next morning. She then told police that the child did not tell her whose home he was going to.

She told police that she told him no and that he went back outside to play. She said she didn't check to see if he had come home that evening before she went to bed. She was later issued a criminal summons for child abuse.

Arrest records say that when the child left his mom to go back outside, he returned to the vehicle and told Lockit and Davidson he could spend the night at their house. 

Lockit then contacted his drug dealer to buy meth. The four of them drove to a Safeway where the dealer's girlfriend worked. Lockit told police the boy persuaded a customer to give Lockit $10, which he used to purchase the meth from the girlfriend. 

Lockit told police he smoked some of the meth when the child was not in the car. He said he smoked more when he, the boy and Davidson arrived at Davidson's home in Falcon. Lockit and the boy were in the same room at the time, but Lockit told police he "made sure not to exhale in the child's direction."

Lockit said he set his alarm for early in the morning so as to be gone before Davidson's parents woke up. Lockit and the boy went to a different property, where they stayed in a shed set up as chicken coop, arrest records state. 

Ashton tried to leave the coop several times, but Lockit prevented him from leaving and eventually put a lock on the door. He would later give the child the key, but told him he could not leave. 

According to arrest documents, Lockit told police he began to reassess the situation and thought he should probably take the boy home. When asked what changed, Lockit said "he started thinking about the situation and feel (sic) it wasn't right."

According the documents, police canvassed residents in the area and with information from Lockit's aunt, eventually found  Ashton, Lockit and Davidson in a shed at Davidson's residence in Falcon. 

Editor's note: Earlier versions of this story and case published the boy's name. We have removed it per Gazette policy to not name juveniles. 

The El Paso County Sheriff's Office says they have located 16-year-old Hailey Sullivan, who has been missing since May 24.

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