A 26-year-old man missing from Lakewood for 9 days

DENVER — Agonizing. That’s how Lorena Salazar described the last nine days waiting for her live-in boyfriend, James Montoya, to be found.

“There’s been no signs of him at all,” Salazar said. “No form of communication with me, his family, his grandparents, and that’s just not like him.”

According to Salazar, on Saturday night, April 1, Montoya went by himself to the Hangar 101 Bar in Lakewood to play pool and hang out, as he often did. 

Salazar said Montoya left the bar around 2 a.m….