Investigators believe they have found remains of missing Hemet teen in Salton City
Update - 9/29/26 - 5:10 p.m.
Investigators believe they have found more remains of T'Neya Tovar, the Imperial County District Attorney's office announced.
Remains were found off Treadwell Boulevard in Salton City. DNA testing will be conducted to confirm that the remains are in fact T’Neya’s.
The DA's office said it was a result of the plea agreement with Abraham Feinbloom, which calls for Feinbloom to be sentenced to a life sentence with a possibility of parole after 13 years. A specific condition of the plea agreement was that Feinbloom assist law enforcement in locating the remains of T’Neya.
"Prior to the plea agreement being entered in this case T’Neya’s parents, Charro Tovar and Josh
Carter (who approve of their names being used), expressed to the Imperial County District Attorney’s Office their deep and personal desire for the remains of T’Neya to be located so that they could truly put her to rest," reads a news release from the DA's office.
The DA's office added, "Today will hopefully bring some measure of closure to T’Neya’s family and will allow her parents to put their daughter to rest."
Update - 9/29/26 - 4:10 p.m.
Investigators found a skull and ribcage today, the Imperial County District Attorney's office told News Channel 3's Garrett Hottle. DNA testing will need to be conducted to confirm the identity.
News Channel 3 will have the latest updates live from the scene at 5 and 6 p.m.
Original Report 9/29/26 - 12:03 p.m.
SALTON CITY, Calif. (KESQ) Police are searching in Salton City again this morning.
Neighbors started sending News Channel 3 messages early Tuesday about officers and vehicles setting up in the area. We don't yet know which agencies are out there or what they're looking for.
But the timing is hard to miss. Yesterday, a plea deal was filed in Imperial County Superior Court that requires Abraham Feinbloom to take investigators to the rest of T'Neya Tovar's body.
News Channel 3 broke the terms of that deal Monday. Feinbloom, 51, is expected to plead no contest to torture and voluntary manslaughter and get 13 years to life. The murder charge goes away at sentencing, but only if investigators find parts of her torso and head first.
The agreement says her remains are expected to be at "at least two sites." Investigators can take Feinbloom out of the Imperial County jail and drive him there. His attorney and her investigator can follow behind. Whatever he tells them along the way can't be used against him.
It's not clear whether Feinbloom is out there this morning.
His attorney, Melanie Roe, told News Channel 3 on Monday that sentencing is set for Oct. 26.
T'Neya was 17. Only one of her legs has ever been found. Deputies picked it up Dec. 21 near Portsmouth Avenue and Newhaven Court in Vista Del Mar, less than a mile from Feinbloom's boarded-up house on Harlequin Court. That was nine months ago.
The last big search out here was Aug. 25, when federal agents spent a day digging behind Feinbloom's house and on the empty lot next door. Nobody ever said what they were after or whether they found it.
T'Neya was from Hemet. She went missing Dec. 1 after telling her mom she was heading to Palm Springs. A friend dropped her off at Feinbloom's house that same day, an FBI agent testified in April. Her parents drove out to Salton City over and over asking deputies to check the house. Feinbloom was arrested Feb. 13 when he jumped a fence trying to get away from a SWAT team.
