Neo Langston, a social media influencer who was often photographed with the singer, was released from Los Angeles Police Department custody this weekend on a $60,000 bond, records show. LAPD Capt. Mike Bland said the department is not in a position to comment on the arrest.
The development comes four months after the gruesome discovery of the remains of 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez at a Hollywood tow yard on September 8. Although police have publicly declined to rule the girl’s death a homicide, a court filing by an LAPD detective referred to the case as a homicide investigation.
A swarm of police arrested Langston at his mother’s home in Helena, Mont., on Thursday after he failed to appear as a witness in a criminal case in Los Angeles County. An LA County jail issued the warrant, officials said.
Lt. Adam Shanks of the Helena Police Department said detectives from the LAPD’s Robbery-Homicide Division were contacted to assist with an arrest.
Police took Langston into custody on an outstanding warrant out of Los Angeles County and booked him into the Lewis & Clark County Detention Center, and he was en route to Los Angeles Friday afternoon, Shanks said. The next day, Langston was released on a $60,000 bond.
Langston had repeatedly refused to testify before an LA grand jury, according to sources not authorized to discuss pending criminal cases. It is unclear whether Langston testified or agreed to testify after he was jailed. Grand jury proceedings are usually secret.
In November, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office began presenting evidence to a so-called grand jury, according to one of the sources. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the matter with the media.
Since then, numerous other witnesses have entered the grand jury room to testify in the investigation into Celeste’s death. Among them is one of D4vd’s managers, whose real name is David Anthony Burke.
The grand jury investigation into Celeste’s death first came to light when a grand jury case number was included in a court order.
In that document issued in November, LAPD Det. Joshua Byers of the Robbery-Homicide Division successfully persuaded a judge to ban the LA County Medical Examiner from releasing autopsy results and other details related to the girl’s death that would otherwise be made public.
It was Byers who characterized the case as “a homicide investigation,” the document said.
Detectives have spent months investigating the circumstances surrounding the girl’s death, as well as her relationship with D4vd.
His Tesla sat abandoned on a street in the Hollywood Hills for several weeks and possibly months before it was removed. A towing worker noticed a foul odor coming from the Tesla and alerted the LAPD.
In the trunk, police found a black bag containing Celeste’s remains. Before the medical examiner’s records were sealed, the office revealed that she weighed 31 pounds and had “Shhh” tattooed on her finger.
Authorities discovered her body the day after Celeste’s 15th birthday. LAPD Capt. Scot Williams, chief of the Robbery-Homicide Division, said the girl had been “dead for at least several weeks.” Williams said the body was not decapitated or frozen. as some media have reported.
Detectives determined that the Tesla had been parked along Bluebird Avenue since late July – around the time D4vd began a national tour. The tour was canceled shortly after the death investigation attracted worldwide media attention.
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