Eleven children rescued from compound near Colorado, New Mexico border

Eleven children have been rescued from a compound near the Colorado and New Mexico border.

The Taos County Sheriff’s Office in New Mexico said the investigation started in May this year, that a missing child report led them to investigate the compound in the first place.

“We just kind continued and tried to learn what we could about it and at some point in there we kind of believed that this might have an access to this missing child in Georgia,” Taos County Sheriff Jerry Hogrefe said.

Hogrefe said the makeshift residence was just a small travel trailer buried and covered with plastic. It was surrounded by tires and earthen berms as walls. Hogrefe said there was no water, plumbing or electricity, and there were just trace amounts of food.

Inside, deputies found 11 children, ranging in age from one-year-old to 15-years-old.

Two men were arrested from the compound. Lucas Morten was arrested for harboring a fugitive. Siraj Wahhaj was booked on a no bond warrant out of Georgia for child abduction.

Wahhaj is believed to have abducted AG Wahhaj, but there was no trace of the child at the compound.

The children rescued are now in custody of the New Mexico Children, Youth and Families Department.

Three women were also found at the compound and are believed to be children’s mothers, they were detained during the investigation.