When they drove Monge around the block back to the nightclub, it was closed. Forbes asked her where she lived and realized her home in Aurora was only blocks from the bakery where he works. He offered to take her home.
"She really didn't want to go home because she didn't want her dad to see her like this," Forbes said.
Forbes said he dropped his friend off at his house and was heading to Aurora when Monge saw a Conoco station at Speer Boulevard and Pennsylvania Street and said she needed a cigarette. When they got to the station, it was closed. Monge started crying again.
Forbes started to drive away when Monge spotted a man walking down the street smoking a cigarette. She asked Forbes to stop and, he said, she jumped out and ran over to the man, immediately putting her arm on his.
Forbes, who has a criminal record for assault, trespassing and theft, got back in his van and drove away as Monge and the stranger were walking together down the street, he said.
"Until they find this girl, it's going to weigh on me," Forbes said. "I do feel responsible. I chose not to care, to be indifferent."
Denver police Lt. Matt Murray said detectives have interviewed Forbes as part of their investigation of Monge's disappearance.
"We have never told him that he is a suspect," Murray said. "Every day that goes by is very troubling."
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