Countless questions remain after police said a Texas man who'd been reported missing for eight years had actually been gone only one day.
A missing persons flier is displayed on a computer screen as Houston Police Chief Troy Finner gives an update on the Rudy Farias case during a news conference at HPD headquarters, Thursday, July 6, 2023, in Houston. Farias, who was reported missing as a teenager in 2015, returned home the next day but he and his mother deceived officers by giving false names over the ensuing eight years, police said Thursday.
According to police, both Santana and Farias himself “gave fictitious names while interacting with various patrol officers,” with Farias doing so when running into patrol officers. Zamora said that the district attorney was declining to file charges for making fictitious reports and failure to ID, but added, “The investigation is active, and there are new leads coming in. We’ll continue to follow those leads.
Family members went to police in 2018 to say they had seen Farias staying behind the home of a relative. A police spokesman said this week that investigators followed up on that claim but “they could not observe him. They could not locate him. Santana claimed the person spotted was her nephew. Zamora said that Farias is"with his mother by choice," noting his status as an adult, but said he had been connected with victim services. Police added that their interviews with Farias did not lead them to believe he had been sexually abused, although a local activist hasFarias was reported missing on March 7, 2015 after allegedly not returning from walking his two dogs the prior evening.
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