Police say a new stalking case triggered a bond hold while detectives keep working a separate disappearance.
HOUSTON, TX — A Houston attorney has been returned to jail on a stalking charge as police continue investigating the 2024 disappearance of a man who lived at the attorney’s home and has not been seen in nearly two years, according to court records and local officials.
The attorney, Sean Kennedy, was arrested this week after a neighbor reported conduct that investigators described as stalking. The arrest also reopened questions around the still-unsolved disappearance of Robert Bond, 40, who vanished in June 2024 after staying at Kennedy’s townhome near The Galleria. No one has been charged in Bond’s disappearance, and police have said the investigation remains active.
Kennedy’s latest case centers on allegations from a neighbor who told police she found a surveillance camera positioned toward her bedroom. Court records describe the device as having microphones and night-vision capabilities. The neighbor provided investigators with video that she said showed Kennedy installing the camera on Jan. 20, 2026, records say. Police arrested Kennedy on a stalking charge tied to those allegations, and he was jailed without bond after his earlier bond conditions were brought back to court because defendants are typically ordered not to commit new crimes while released.
The neighbor’s report arrived while detectives have been working to determine what happened to Bond, whose family says he was living with Kennedy and Kennedy’s wife, Alle Price, at the time he vanished. Bond’s mother, Cindy Splater, said the long silence has shifted from fear to a grim certainty. “The hardest part about it is missing him and, you know, missing his visits and his phone calls and emails and voice messages,” Splater said in an interview. “But it’s not knowing what happened and where he is. You know, I mean, obviously by now it’s been coming up on two years. I know he’s gone … and I’m pretty fairly sure what happened.”
Investigators have searched the Sage Road home more than once since Bond disappeared. In September 2024, Houston police served a search warrant at the home, and Kennedy was arrested on drug charges that were unrelated to the missing-person case, according to records and prior coverage of the investigation. Officials have said Bond was last seen in June 2024 and that he was staying at the townhome when he vanished. Police and court documents from the earlier searches described finding items linked to Bond inside the home, including identification, along with illegal drugs. Those discoveries led to criminal cases, but they did not produce Bond’s location.
Authorities have not publicly laid out a full timeline of Bond’s final day, and key details remain unclear, including whether investigators believe Bond left the home alive, where he may have gone, and what evidence has been collected beyond items recovered in searches. The uncertainty has fueled frustration for relatives who say Bond was close enough to call, text, and leave voice messages regularly, and then stopped. Splater and other family members have said the lack of clear answers has made it difficult to grieve and has stretched the case into a painful limbo.
Price, who is married to Kennedy, has faced separate allegations stemming from what investigators said they found during the 2024 search. In the most recent update on Kennedy’s jail booking, court records and police statements described Price’s case as pending. Records in the earlier investigation also described allegations involving identifying information from multiple people, a detail that investigators said was discovered during the search connected to the missing-man investigation. Those charges have moved on a separate track from the disappearance inquiry, and authorities have stressed that neither Price nor Kennedy has been charged in connection with Bond’s disappearance.
In earlier court proceedings, Price offered a different account of how Bond came to stay at their home and why he later disappeared. After a 2024 court appearance, she said Bond had been living in a hotel before the couple took him in, describing the decision as an act of help that later went wrong. “He was living in a hotel when we found him. I have a big heart. I convinced my husband to let him stay with us until we could get him a place, but he started using drugs,” Price said at the time. Price said she contacted Bond’s probation officer and then he ran away, but Bond’s family has said they do not believe the explanation fits the total silence since June 2024.
Bond, according to statements cited in court records and prior reports, was on probation for drug possession when he went missing. Investigators have said that during the 2024 searches they found illegal drugs inside the home along with Bond’s identifying documents. Those findings fueled the earlier drug case and other allegations, but police have not said publicly how the items ended up in the home or what they prove about Bond’s fate. Family members have argued that someone does not simply vanish while leaving behind critical documents, and they have pushed for a deeper investigation into the people who last saw him.
Kennedy’s new stalking arrest adds another set of legal steps, including an arraignment process and a court schedule that could determine whether he remains jailed while the case proceeds. Because the arrest happened while he was already under bond conditions from a separate case, the court’s decision to hold him without bond reflects the way judges often treat new allegations against defendants who are already released. Prosecutors can ask the court to revoke or tighten release conditions when they believe a new offense violates an earlier bond order. Court records reviewed in the stalking case describe the neighbor’s claims as involving repeated conduct, including surveillance, photographing, yelling and interference with utility service.
Houston police have said the missing-person investigation remains active, but the department has not announced any new charges, a named suspect, or a confirmed cause of death in Bond’s case. Detectives have not said whether they have recovered forensic evidence that points to homicide, and they have not publicly identified where the investigation is focused next. The case remains open, meaning investigators can continue to seek warrants, interview witnesses, and review digital and physical evidence as it becomes available.
For Bond’s family, Kennedy’s return to jail brought a brief sense that the system is paying attention, even if the central question has not been answered. Splater described Kennedy and Price as erratic in the months surrounding her son’s disappearance. “Their behavior is beyond bizarre and anybody who knows them knows that,” she said. She said the family’s hope now is for a clear accounting of what happened and where Bond is, even if the answer confirms their worst fears.
As of Friday, investigators said Bond still has not been found and no one has been charged in connection with his disappearance. Kennedy’s attorney declined to comment on the stalking case, and police have not announced a timeline for their next public update in the missing-man investigation.
Author note: Last updated February 21, 2026.