Texas teen reported missing by mom in 2015 was "not missing," police say

effort and detective Atlanta Claiborne today we're discussing facts related to 25 year old Rudy ferries who was reported missing on March 7 2015. he was 17 years old when his mother reported him missing during the eight year time frame where he was missing investigators followed up on many tips leads collected evidence provide proving that Rudy was not missing during the eight year period many of these facts included contacts and statements with relatives friends neighbors and medical professionals Rudy was recently identified as having previous HPD interactions meaning that he made contact with Patrol officers out on the street however during these contacts fictitious names and date of births were given misleading officers and Rudy would remain missing in fact both Janie Rudy's mother and Rudy himself gave fictitious names while interacting with various Patrol officers after investigators talked with him yesterday [Music] it was discovered that Rudy returned home the following day on March 8th 2015. the mother Janie continued to deceive police by a remaining adamant that Rudy was still missing she alleged her nephew was the person friends and family were seeing coming and going however we disputed that currently the D.A has declined any charges at this time for making fictitious reports and failure to ID investigators have reached out to Adult Protective Services HPD victim Services has reached out we've also connected Rudy with victim services to ensure that he has a method to recover now based on Rudy's interview there were no reports of sexual abuse reported if there is a disclosure made we will continue to investigate currently the investigation is active and there are new leads coming in and we'll continue to follow those leads we do take all allegations seriously and any new information or facts that we receive will be investigated thank you lieutenant one question

Channel: CBS News

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Keywords: houston, Texas

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Length: 2min 30sec (150 seconds)

Published: Thu Jul 06 2023