Federal authorities are offering a substantial reward for critical information regarding the disappearance and potential death of 6-year-old disabled Noel Rodriguez-Alvarez and the location of his accused mother.
The Dallas FBI issued an Unlawful Flight to Avoid Prosecution (UFAP) warrant for Cindy Rodriguez-Singh on Thursday. The FBI is also offering a $25,000 reward for any information that could help locate and apprehend her, according to Law&Crime.
“Cindy Rodriguez-Singh is wanted for allegedly murdering her young son,” said Dallas FBI Special Agent in Charge Chad Yarbrough during a press conference.
“I am confident that the combination of publicity, a significant reward, and the team of experienced investigators from the FBI Fort Worth Resident Agency Violent Crime Squad, Everman Police Department, Tarrant County District Attorney’s Office, and Texas DPS-Texas Rangers will lead to her arrest. The community of Everman needs justice for Noel.”
As previously reported by CrimeOnline, Everman Police Chief Craig Spencer stated that Noel, who has been missing for months, suffers from severe health problems, and investigators are concerned that he is not receiving the care he needs.
According to Spencer, the case is now criminal due to the circumstantial evidence accumulating as police continue the investigation.
“It is shifting more toward a criminal investigation,” Spencer said, according to Fox 4. “The circumstantial evidence is certainly building up to a level where it becomes criminal.”
Officials attempted to locate the mother, who allegedly avoided contact with them. When a Child Protective Services investigator eventually reached her at the family home on Wisteria Drive in Everman, they discovered that Noel was missing. His mother claimed he had gone to Mexico with his father.
When police spoke with the child’s father, he stated he had never met or seen the boy. Homeland Security later confirmed that the father had been deported to Mexico shortly before Noel’s birth.
In March, before their flight on March 22, Spencer said that Arshdeep Singh, Noel’s stepfather, purchased the family’s plane tickets using a credit card less than 24 hours before they left the country. He also mentioned that Singh had altered his company’s cash deposit records, taking $10,000 in cash from the safe.
Singh was charged with abandoning or endangering a child and theft for stealing $10,000 from his employer before leaving the country.
On March 22, police learned that the family, including the mother, stepfather, and six children (including Noel’s 5-month-old twin half-siblings), boarded a plane to India with a layover in Istanbul, Turkey. Noel did not accompany his family on this flight.
Later in March, Cantarino Rodriguez, Rodriguez-Singh’s brother, informed investigators that she told their mother she sold Noel to an unknown woman at a Fiesta Market, according to a search warrant. Rodriguez-Singh claimed she couldn’t contact the woman for fear of being reported to Child Protective Services.
On April 3, Spencer called the sale allegation a “rumor” and said investigators had “no evidence” to support it, though he noted they were exploring that possibility. He stated that detectives could “specifically rule out” that Noel was sold to someone at a Fiesta Mart.
On April 9, Texas investigators announced they believed human remains were once in a backyard shed where missing Noel and his family lived.
Everman Police revealed in a news release that they retrieved “a large indoor/outdoor carpet” that Arshdeep Singh had disposed of in a nearby dumpster the night before the family left the country.
“Yesterday, with the assistance of TEXSAR (Texas Search and Rescue), multiple Human Remains Detection Canines alerted to this carpet,” police said.
On April 15, the carpet was identified as the “base and flooring (directly on top of the ground)” to the shed where the family lived. The shed had been torn down and replaced by an “unpermitted and suspicious” concrete patio. After obtaining a search warrant, crews began removing the patio.
Detectives reported that the canines again alerted to the topsoil beneath the patio but stopped alerting as crews dug deeper into the ground.
On October 30, Everman police announced that Rodriguez-Singh had been charged with capital murder, injury to a child, and abandoning without intent to return, even though her son’s body has not been found.
Law enforcement is currently searching for Rodriguez-Singh and hopes the financial reward will lead to her capture
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[Feature Photo: Cindy Rodriguez-Singh, left, and Noel Rodriguez-Alvarez/Everman Police Department]
