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Prosecutors say D4vd disposed of Celeste Rivas‘ personal items in a remote area of Santa Barbara County after he murdered her in his Hollywood Hills home … her identification was found off a highway in the area described, and now we know how it was recovered.

Caltrans tells TMZ … a maintenance worker performing traffic control on SR-154 east of Painted Cave Road on Jan. 7, 2026 looked down in the brush and discovered Celeste’s passport card. That’s about 100 miles northwest of the Hollywood Hills, in a wooded mountainous region.

We’re told the Caltrans worker reported the finding to his supervisor, who contacted the California Highway Patrol.

Caltrans says CHP came and collected Celeste’s passport card … and then detectives from an unknown law enforcement agency returned on January 17 to interview the maintenance worker and his supervisor.

LAPD was investigating Celeste’s death … so it sounds like that’s the law enforcement agency mentioned.

D4vd is charged with murdering Celeste, mutilating her corpse and having sex with her before she was 14 … he’s pleaded not guilty to all three charges and remains in jail.