07/12/2025
Jesus is still missing. Please pay close attention when you are hiking and exploring, just in case.
Please say extra prayers for his whole family 🙏🏻 and share share share!
Jesus Rivera Sr aka Chuy, 46
Job Site/San Bernardino Mountains, California
Last seen Monday, March 11, 2019
NaMus MP57462
Jesus Rivera Sr lives in Victorville, California. He met a guy named Salvador, a year or so ago, at Home Depot and begun working construction with him and his brother, John.
The crew had completed a job in the San Bernardino mountains previously and returned in March 2019 to start remodeling yet another house Salvador's brother, John and his wife, Janet had bought to remodel. They run a successful real estate business in California and the brother does their construction work.
They arrived Monday morning March 11th, and worked all day. Salvador said it was 11pm and Jesus began to feel anxious. Jesus has panic attacks, so he told Salvador he was going for a walk. He leaves his cell phone and wallet on the counter to go for a walk, despite the cold.
Salvador has stated Jesus didn’t come back after an hour or so. He said drove looking for him, but couldn’t find him. The next morning he still hadn’t come back so he called 911and reported him missing. This was on a Tuesday, March 12th.
On Thursday, March 13th, Jesus son, Jesus Jr got a call from his mother that his dad is missing from the job site. He learned that the crew worked and slept at the house during the remodeling job and his father had went for a walk but hadn't come back. Jr called law enforcement and learns they didn’t know there was a missing person in the area, Jesus Sr had not been reported missing after all.
Jesus Jr leaves San Diego, goes up the mountain to file the missing persons report on Friday March 14th. Law enforcement questioned co-workers and friends but no searches have been done, says the family.
Jesus Jr has called Salvador a few times asking what happened. He has asked if they were drinking? Asked if any sign of drug use due to Jesus Sr being sober a year. Salvador stated no drug use and they was alone.
When Jesus talks to him again he asked why police didn’t know Sr., his father, was missing and Salvador gave the story saying, he called his brother, John and asking him to call 911 from Los Angeles! He thought John had called but must’ve mistaken.
Salvador has changed his story several time, stating he was asleep and didn’t realize Jesus hadn't returned and that he searched for him the next morning after saying he searched that night. He drove all over, was nervous, it was foggy and snowing hard.
John, the brother, has stated that Salvador didn’t drive to search because he didn’t have the car instead he looked for footsteps in the snow and saw nothing. But then you got to question 'How did they arrive to the job without transportation?'
Residents said that they had poured concrete after Jesus Sr disappeared and they found it odd to pour concrete in the winter because the ground is cold.
Salvador has mentioned Jesus Sr to other contractors, who have given statements. According to them, 'he said one of his laborers went missing. That he took off in the middle of the night and that he was still missing. He told them he didn’t know Jesus, he was some random guy he picked up as a day laborer.' They also the brothers didn't pay the sub-contractors for the work they completed.
Jesus Jr posted several times to the main newspapers page in the area. They blocked him after telling him to stop posting his missing father
Jesus Sr has VANISHED!
If you have any information please call Detective Russel Goines at the
San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department
(909) 387-3545
Case
https://www.namus.gov/MissingPersons/Case #/57462?nav
