California teacher arrested, accused of hiding missing kid for nearly 2 years - KTLA Los Angeles

by: Jose Fabian, Alix Martichoux, Nexstar Media Wire

Posted: Oct 25, 2022 / 10:28 AM PDT

Updated: Oct 25, 2022 / 10:38 AM PDT

A California teacher has been arrested aft a Sacramento-area teenager, who went missing successful 2020, abruptly reappeared.  

On June 9, 2020, 15-year-old Michael Ramirez was reported missing. Police asked for help locating the teenager, saying helium was past seen leaving his Rancho Cordova location connected May 18. His household said helium ran distant aft an argument.

Then, earlier this year, connected March 11, Ramirez “inexplicably returned home,” the Sacramento County Sheriff Department said.

An probe yet led to the apprehension of 61-year-old Holga Castillo Olivares, according to the sheriff’s office. She is an worker of Sacramento City Unified School District, the sheriff’s bureau said, and the Alice Birney Waldorf-Inspired K-8 School lists her online arsenic a second-grade teacher.

Ramirez’s aunt, Katte Smith, told KCRA the teen had been surviving with Olivares the full time.

“You can’t conscionable fell someone’s kid and deliberation that’s OK,” she said. “When we heard she had been arrested, we were floored.”

KCRA reports Olivares had been questioned passim the missing persons investigation.

The sheriff’s bureau said Olivares was arrested connected suspicion of detention of a insignificant with the intent to conceal from parents, arsenic good arsenic contributing to the delinquency of a minor.

The sheriff’s bureau is asking anyone with accusation to telephone the Rancho Cordova Police Department astatine 916-362-5115