HOUSTON — And man of Texas who was reported missing as a teenager in 2015 returned home the next day, but he and his mother misled officers by giving false names for the next eight years, the agency said. police Thursday.
Houston police detectives said prosecutors have declined to file false report charges against Janie Santana and her son, Rudolph “Rudy” Farias IV, but that their investigation is continuing.
The announcement came a week after police said they found Farias after receiving a call about a person lying on the ground outside a southeast Houston church.
Authorities have not said where Farias, now 25, has been in the eight years since he was reported missing after walking his two dogs near his family’s home in northeast Houston. He was hospitalized after police found him last week and detectives interviewed him and his mother on Wednesday.
“After investigators spoke with him yesterday, it was discovered that Rudy returned home the next day, March 8, 2015,” Lt. Christopher Zamora said during a news conference. “The mother, Janie, continued to mislead the police by saying that Rudy was still missing.”
After Farias was reported missing, Houston police and Texas Equusearch, a civilian search team, searched for him and found only his dogs.
In the years that followed, there were several possible sightings of Farias, according to a private investigator hired by the teen’s mother a few months after reporting him missing.
Police Chief Troy Finner declined Thursday to answer questions about the mental health of Farias or his mother and would not say what prompted his actions. He said police are “just at the beginning” of their investigation into what happened.
FUENTE: With information from AP
