Everman Police Chief Craig Spencer provides an update on the disappearance of Noel Rodriguez-Alvarez on March 28, 2023. (Town of Everman and Tarrant County Sheriff’s Office)
The case of a North Texas boy who has been missing since last November will likely soon be the subject of a criminal investigation, police said Tuesday.
Disabled and just 6 years old, Noel Rodriguez-Alvarez has not been seen in months, according to Everman Police Chief Craig Spencer. When first contacted by law enforcement, Cindy Rodriguez-Singh said her son had been living with his biological father in Mexico since November 2022. Detectives later learned that was not TRUE.
A few days later, an AMBER alert was issued, but the day before the alert was issued, the Sing family boarded a flight to India, police say.
“It tilts more towards a criminal investigation,” Spencer said at a press conference on Tuesday afternoon. “We have supporting circumstantial evidence and things that point us in that direction. So we’re definitely taking that route.
“The physical evidence was not present. There is certainly a significant amount of circumstantial evidence. When we talk about the circumstances surrounding this case, everyone is suspicious.
After an initial tip from Child Protective Services that Rodriguez-Alvarez’s mother allegedly lied to police, law enforcement followed his father and confirmed that the 6-year-old years had not crossed the US-Mexico border. Officers sought to recontact Rodriguez-Singh, but by then the mother was nowhere to be found.
After speaking with numerous local, county, state and federal law enforcement agencies, an AMBER Alert was issued for the boy. The Amber Alert was issued early Saturday morning and replaced with a Dangerous Missing Persons Alert around 9pm that day.
Law enforcement later learned that the family had boarded a Turkish Airways flight with a stopover in Istanbul on March 23 – final destination: India.
“One of the tipsters who called was actually on the flight with the family,” Spencer said, calling on anyone else who was on the flight to contact law enforcement, stressing that this information was crucial.
Investigators are currently reviewing documents obtained from the family’s residence and their truck found parked at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport over the weekend to try to piece together the timeline of his disappearance, the chief of the police.
“There are a lot of holes in the answers we got in this investigation that we need to continue to fill,” Spencer said Tuesday in Everman, a small town 11 miles south of Fort Worth. “We have no leads on where he might be. I’m not convinced he’s dead.
The police chief said Rodriguez-Singh had 10 children of whom police were aware – seven of whom lived with her and three who lived with their grandmother. The police chief suggested that a warrant for her arrest was currently issued.
But, Spencer said, that warrant would be for filing a false missing child report and is a crime in Texas. Such a warrant would not help local authorities with the help of the federal government – let alone result in extradition from India or any other country.
“There’s also a probation violation warrant,” Spencer said Tuesday. “There are other things that keep things going.”
Everman investigators believe it is too soon to begin searching for the boy with the help of the community.
“If we find a lead on where he may be, absolutely,” Spencer said in response to a question from a reporter, visibly uncomfortable with the implication of the question.
“I think, again, we’re heading towards the fact that he might be deceased,” he said. “And I’m still not convinced he’s dead. Of course, if we get any information that points us in that direction, absolutely, we’ll be more than happy to organize a search.
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