Horrific clues that would lead cops to D4vd and led to his arrested over 14-year-old girls murder
The job began in September, when workers at an impound lot noticed a foul smell coming from a towed Tesla.Seven months later, it would lead to the arrest by Los Angeles cops on Thursday afternoon arrested singer D4vd, seven months after a runaway girl’s dismembered body was found in the trunk of the pop singer’s abandoned Tesla.Officers with the Los Angeles Police Department’s Robbery-Homicide Division took the Queens-born pop star, whose real name is David Burke, into custody at a home in the Hollywood hills without incident, police said.Burke, 21, is being held without bail. The case will be presented to the District Attorney’s office on Monday, when Burke’s official charges are expected to be announced.
Speaking from the scene where Burke was arrested just hours after the cops made their collar, Robbery-Homicide’s commanding officer, Cpt.Scot Williams, told The Post in an exclusive interview that investigators worked diligently for months to build their case.The source of the odor turned out to be the decomposing, and dismembered body of 14-year-old Celeste Rivas.“She had been dead for a long time before that, and so we were behind the eight-ball from the beginning,” Cpt.
Scot Williams, told The Post in an exclusive interview.“We had to backtrack through the evidence to make a determination as to when she died and then work our way forward from there.” Investigators then worked diligently for months to build their case.The singer’s attorneys, Blair Berk, Marilyn Bednarski and Regina Peter also spoke out following the arrest.“Let us be clear — the actual evidence in this case will show that David Burke did not murder Celeste Rivas Hernandez and he was not the cause of her death.There has been no indictment returned by any grand jury in this case and no criminal complaint filed.
David has only been detained under suspicion.We will vigorously defend David’s innocence,” they said in a joint statement.Rivas had previously been rep...