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() Police were called to Celeste Rivas Hernandez’s home 11 times over 14 months, according to TMZ reporting.
The decomposed body of Hernandez was discovered in the trunk of R&B artist D4vd last month. Her remains were found inside a Tesla belonging to the singer at a Hollywood tow yard on September 8.
Sheriff’s deputies from Riverside County, California, made visits to Hernandez’s home between February 2024 and April 2025. Authorities confirmed that officers were at her residence twice on March 19, 2024, coinciding with a surveillance video capturing Hernandez running down a street near a liquor store at 7 a.m.
Authorities also went to the liquor store on the same day, as well, and so did Hernandez’s sister when looking for her.
A neighbor informed “Banfield” on Wednesday that Celeste’s family resided in public housing during 2019 and 2020. The neighbor mentioned overhearing frequent arguments between Hernandez’s parents about their children’s custody, although there was no sign of a divorce.
The woman called Celeste “a sweet little girl whose mom would keep her close at all times.”
Celeste Rivas Hernandez would take off, come back: Neighbor
Another neighbor of Hernandez stated the 15-year-old would take off from her home and return on several occasions.
“The first time I noticed her, she was walking along the street early in the morning,” she recalled. “This was during the colder months. I distinctly remember driving and spotting her gorgeous curls. I thought to myself, ‘What a beautiful child!’ and then continued my journey. That was likely about six months before her initial disappearance in February 2024.”
Hernandez had run away from home several times in 2024 before she was officially reported missing in April of that year. Reports also suggested that Celeste’s mother noted her daughter was dating someone named David before vanishing.
The neighbor also said she heard Hernandez through the apartments as her backyard peers into Celeste’s family backyard.
“I was unaware she was the missing child from next door,” the neighbor admitted. “I’ve been living here since February 2023, nearly three years now. I have never met the family. I don’t know their names or the number of people residing there.”
confirmed that Hernandez’s parents are legal citizens of the United States. Records acquired by private investigator Steve Fisher show that both of them received Social Security numbers around 2001.
Hernandez caught in shouting match months after disappearance, video shows
A video was recorded at the home of Celeste’s parents, precisely a year before her body was found in the trunk of a car belonging to the D4vd.
Neighbors who provided the video to TMZ say that it shows her arguing with people who ostensibly had pulled a prank on her. Celeste was seen yelling and swearing at individuals she believed had played a prank on her parents’ home.
“They’d seen the posters up. They said that her family members did walk around town that summer, showing everyone the poster, saying, ‘Have you seen Celeste?’ So it was in their heads,” TMZ’s Charles Latibeaudiere said.
By the dates themselves, the video seems to prove that Celeste visited her family at least once after she ran away for the last time.