DENVER (KDVR) — An arrest affidavit is shedding new light on how a Missouri juvenile was kidnapped and held inside a Colorado sex offender’s home for months.
For Fort Collins Police Services, the case began on April 18 with a call from the Boone County Sheriff’s Office Cyber Crimes Task Force about a kidnapping in the Missouri jurisdiction. The sheriff’s office said the victim was a 16-year-old girl who was reported missing on Dec. 6, 2024.
Police noted that this was her first time running away. Several students at her school told officials she had mentioned running away at least a month prior and spoke about going to Colorado.
An arrest affidavit described how her phone and social media were “completely silent” since Dec. 6, 2024, until April 16, when a detective was contacted by a student who said they had a friend who had been contacted by the missing girl the day before. She told the classmate she was “in a different state.”
Based on the Instagram account and information obtained from Meta, detectives were able to determine that she was likely living in Fort Collins at an address associated with Maximilian Nicholas Bondrescu, 44, a registered sex offender who had been convicted of communication with a minor for immoral purposes. Police arrested Bondrescu on April 18 at his home Fort Collins.
According to the arrest affidavit, when police arrived at the address to serve the search warrant, Bondrescu denied there was a juvenile in the house, but said there “may be an adult female,” according to the arrest report. Police reported they searched the house and found the teen hiding in a bedroom closet.
Later, in interviews with law enforcement, the teen said she started talking to Bonrescu in November 2024.
She described how Bondrescu rented a car, drove to Missouri, and picked her up from her house in the middle of the night. She said when they got to Bondrescu’s house, it was still dark, and he wrapped her in a blanket and carried her into the house so no one would see her.
She told law enforcement that two other roommates lived in the house, and she had never met them or seen them because Bondrescu said they would get in trouble for her being there. According to the arrest affidavit, she said that the few times she was allowed out of the house, Bondrescu made her dye her hair and wear glasses and a facemask.
She talked about how she had asked to go home in January and February, but he told her he didn’t have the money to get her back home. When police asked the teen what would have happened if she just left, she noted it was cold and she didn’t know anyone in the area to ask for help.
The teen allegedly told officers there was a sound machine in Bondrescu’s bedroom so his roommates wouldn’t hear them talking, and said Bondrescu had taken her ID and other items, telling her it was so “no one would find it.”
In the same arrest affidavit, Bondrescu denied having sexual contact with the teen and stated “she was only at the house for a few weeks.”
Bondrescu is facing charges of second-degree kidnapping, sexual assault on a child, second-degree assault, false imprisonment of a minor, failure to register as a sex offender, child abuse, harboring a minor and obstructing a peace officer.
