Texas Man Reported Missing as Teen in 2015 Has Been at Home With His Mother All Along, Police Say

A missing poster for Rudolph "Rudy" Farias IV during the Missing Person Day event at City Hall in Houston on Jan. 31, 2016. TexasEquuSearch/Courtesy of Houston Chronicle via AP

HOUSTON—A Texas man who was reported missing as a teenager in 2015 ultimately returned home a day later but he and his mother deceived officers by giving false names over the ensuing eight years, police said Thursday.

Houston police detectives said prosecutors have declined to bring false report charges against Janie Santana and her son, Rudolph “Rudy” Farias IV, but that their investigation is continuing.