Police intend to make an arrest within the next seven days in the investigation into Rudy Farias’ reappearance, a law enforcement source told Your Content.
“There will be an arrest within the next week,” a senior official within the Houston Police Department told Your Content. “This is by far one of the most bizarre investigations we’ve encountered.”
According to the senior official, police spoke with several neighbors and obtained numerous statements from witnesses directly involved in the mysterious case.
“We have a lot of conflicting statements from neighbors, family members and other individuals we spoke with about Rudy,” continued the senior official. “It’s evident after speaking with Rudy that he was manipulated by his mother for over a decade and that makes it harder for us to speak with him about what happened.”
“It’s common for victims who were manipulated for such a long time to withhold information in fear of some sort of retribution.”
The Houston Police Department did not respond to requests for comment when approached by Your Content.
As Your Content readers know, Rudy, 25, has come forward, accusing his mother of holding him against his will, subjecting him to drugging and sexual abuse.
Rudy, who was found in a disheveled state outside a Houston church last week, contradicts his mother’s claims that he had been missing for eight years. According to Farias, he was not “non-verbal” as his mother stated.
Janie Santana, Farias’ mother, had reported him missing in 2015 when he was 17. However, neighbors have refuted this claim, asserting that they had seen Farias regularly during the period he was presumed missing. The neighbors recall Farias speaking about the death of his brother in a motorcycle accident in 2011, a tragic event that his mother had mentioned to officials.
Farias’ father, Rudolph Farias III, a Houston police officer, sadly died by suicide in 2014. At the time of his death, he was being investigated by internal affairs after serving the force for 21 years.
On July 5, Farias was seen covering his face with a blanket as counselor Quanell X accompanied him out of a Houston hotel. Quanell, acting as a mediator between the family and the police, emotionally shared his conversation with Farias. It was during this discussion that Farias opened up, speaking up only after being separated from his mother during questioning.
Quanell revealed that Farias made private statements, contradicting his mother’s narrative. Farias claimed that he had never been missing and instead described years of being coerced to share a bed with his mother, who treated him as a substitute for his deceased father. Quanell refrained from providing explicit details about the alleged sexual abuse but confirmed Farias’ assertions.
According to Farias, he was found by the police last week because he had taken his mother’s car in an attempt to escape her control. The exact timeline of his initial disappearance before being discovered near the church on June 29 remains unclear. Quanell mentioned that Farias had his mother’s credit card, which had been issued two years earlier.
Quanell expressed concern and stated, “Based on what that boy told me, I don’t see why she’s not in handcuffs right now.” He further explained that Farias initially felt frightened but became calmer once he was alone. Quanell believed that Farias had been subjected to drugging by his mother, according to the New York Post.
Santana, Farias’ mother, deleted a GoFundMe account she had created for medical expenses, adding to the peculiar nature of the situation.