{"id":641940,"date":"2026-05-02T00:48:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T00:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/641940\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T00:48:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T00:48:11","slug":"how-celeste-rivas-id-was-found-in-remote-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/641940\/","title":{"rendered":"How Celeste Rivas&#8217; ID Was Found in Remote Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20260501_11f24d0c9d8449f08d95b1b51f026473\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:d565e40d-c464-450c-81b0-2f0553d9288c\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/11f24d0c9d8449f08d95b1b51f026473_md.jpg\" alt=\"d4vd celeste getty 1\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors say <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/d4vd\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">D4vd<\/a> disposed of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/celeste-rivas\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Celeste Rivas<\/a>&#8216; personal items in a remote area of Santa Barbara County after he murdered her in his Hollywood Hills home &#8230; her identification was found off a highway in the area described, and now we know how it was recovered.<\/p>\n<p>Caltrans tells TMZ &#8230; a maintenance worker performing traffic control on SR-154 east of Painted Cave Road on Jan. 7, 2026 looked down in the brush and discovered Celeste&#8217;s passport card. That&#8217;s about 100 miles northwest of the Hollywood Hills, in a wooded mountainous region.<\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20250917_255907f7f9a6474f992df9669ff29eea\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:d565e40d-c464-450c-81b0-2f0553d9288c\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/255907f7f9a6474f992df9669ff29eea_md.jpg\" alt=\"Celeste Rivas Hernandez missing person 4\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re told the Caltrans worker reported the finding to his supervisor, who contacted the California Highway Patrol.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"continued\" class=\"continued-anchor\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Caltrans says CHP came and collected Celeste&#8217;s passport card &#8230; and then detectives from an unknown law enforcement agency returned on January 17 to interview the maintenance worker and his supervisor.<\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20260420_45dfc50ebbc64485a09b6dd38e3fa772\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:d565e40d-c464-450c-81b0-2f0553d9288c\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/45dfc50ebbc64485a09b6dd38e3fa772_md.jpg\" alt=\"d4vd mug shot new wm 1\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>LAPD was investigating Celeste&#8217;s death &#8230; so it sounds like that&#8217;s the law enforcement agency mentioned.<\/p>\n<p>D4vd is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2026\/04\/20\/d4vd-prosecutors-expected-to-announce-charges-in-celeste-rivas-hernandez-case\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">charged<\/a> with murdering Celeste, mutilating her corpse and having sex with her before she was 14 &#8230; he&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2026\/04\/20\/d4vd-pleads-not-guilty-celeste-rivas-murder\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">pleaded not guilty<\/a> to all three charges and remains in jail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prosecutors say D4vd disposed of Celeste Rivas&#8216; personal items in a remote area of Santa Barbara County after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":641941,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[49,48,75],"class_list":["post-641940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=641940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/641941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}