Celeste Rivas‘ dad and mom had been investigated over allegations of kid neglect and abuse a couple of yr earlier than D4vd allegedly murdered the 14-year-old runaway, however regulation enforcement discovered no wrongdoing … TMZ has discovered.
When Celeste went lacking from her household dwelling Lake Elsinore, CA … the Riverside County Sheriff’s Workplace tells us it opened an investigation that yr on April 27. That was a pair weeks after Celeste was reported lacking for the second time.
It is unknown who known as to complain, however RCSD tells TMZ the individual “expressed concern about a juvenile who had run away.”
We’re advised deputies responded and interviewed everybody who was at Celeste’s dwelling … however the investigation discovered no proof of kid neglect.
Factor is … RCSD says deputies had been unable to interview Celeste, who “had not been located” and subsequently “were unable to determine if a crime had occurred.”
Celeste’s household reported her lacking in February and April 2024 — and, based on prosecutors, Riverside Co. deputies known as D4vd on Feb. 17 after discovering his quantity in Celeste’s cellphone information — and he claimed he had final spoken to her on Feb. 13 or 14, but additionally advised deputies he did not know she was a minor or lacking.
Prosecutors say Celeste returned dwelling to Lake Elsinore 2 days later, and her dad and mom took her cellphone.
D4vd allegedly received again involved with Celeste by driving to Lake Elsinore and paying one in every of her junior excessive classmates $1,000 to present her a cellphone he’d purchased for her.
A little bit over a yr after her dad and mom had been investigated and cleared for little one neglect, prosecutors say D4vd ordered Celeste an Uber to driver her from Lake Elsinore to his dwelling within the Hollywood Hills on April 23, 2025 … and when she arrived at his dwelling, he killed her.
Prosecutors declare D4vd and Celeste first met in 2022, when she was 11 years outdated … they usually allege they started a sexual relationship in November 2023 when he was 18 and he or she was 13.
