Sacramento trainer arrested in teen’s 2020 disappearance, police say

A Sacramento public college trainer has been arrested in reference to the disappearance of a neighborhood teenager who went lacking for almost two years earlier than returning dwelling this previous March, police mentioned.

Holga Castillo Olivares, 61, is an worker of the Sacramento Metropolis Unified Faculty District and works at a Okay-8 elementary college. She was arrested on Thursday and charged with detaining a minor with the intent to hide her dad and mom and contributing to the delinquency of the minor, in response to the Rancho Cordova Police Division. CBS Sacramento experiences that Olivares is a second grade trainer.

Michael Ramirez was reported lacking in June 2020, when he was 15 years previous. The report comes weeks after the boy was final seen leaving his household’s Rancho Cordova dwelling, in response to the Sacramento County Sheriff. Though an “intensive search” for him was carried out, Rancho Cordova police mentioned, officers had been unable to seek out Ramirez. An ongoing investigation led detectives to Olivares.

Ramirez, now 17, “inexplicably returned dwelling” in March of this 12 months, in response to police officer Rancho Cordova, who didn’t present additional particulars on {the teenager}’s disappearance or return. A number of information retailers, together with Sacramento-based NBC affiliate KCRA, have reported that Ramirez and Olivares’ son are mates, citing feedback from the Ramirez household. In keeping with KCRA, {the teenager} informed members of the family upon his return that he had been staying at an previous buddy’s home for 2 years.

Olivares was positioned on administrative depart following his arrest final week, the Sacramento Metropolis Unified Faculty District mentioned in a press launch, in response to CBS Sacramento. The district confirmed in an announcement that Olivares is employed by SCUSD.

“The fees had been filed for conduct unrelated to the worker’s assigned duties. This worker has been positioned on administrative depart pending the end result of the County’s investigation. As it is a personnel matter, Sac Metropolis Unified had no additional remark,” SCUSD mentioned within the information launch, in response to CBS Sacramento.

Olivares will seem in court docket Monday afternoon, police mentioned. Authorities are asking anybody with data relating to the alleged incident to report what they know to Rancho Cordova police at 916-362-5115. Nameless ideas will be shared by calling 916-874-TIPS, or by submitting a web-based kind by the Sacramento County Sheriff’s web site.