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D4vd Friend Arrested for Missing Homicide Witness Role

Published 26 January 2026

Neo Langston, a 23-year-old Twitch streamer and friend of rising R&B singer D4vd, was arrested on January 22, 2026, at his mother's home in Helena, Montana, on a warrant for failing to appear as a witness in a Los Angeles homicide investigation. The case centers on the death of 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez, whose decomposing remains were discovered in the trunk of a Tesla registered to D4vd, whose real name is David Anthony Burke, in a Hollywood Hills impound lot last September.

Court records indicate Langston was initially booked at the Lewis and Clark County Detention Center in Helena before being transferred to Los Angeles, where he appeared before a judge and was held at the Metropolitan Detention Center. He posted $60,000 bail and was released the following day. Authorities have not specified which aspects of the investigation Langston was subpoenaed to address, though his personal ties to Burke place him in proximity to the ongoing probe. It remains unclear if he is the witness described in court proceedings as uncooperative during a December 2025 exchange involving a deputy district attorney.

Celeste Rivas Hernandez was reported missing in April 2024, when she was...

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