Arrest of Cindy Rodriguez-Singh
Cindy Rodriguez-Singh, the North Texas mother accused of killing her young son, has been arrested, the FBI announced Wednesday.
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Rodriguez-Singh was added to the FBI’s Top 10 Most Wanted Fugitive list in July and faces charges of unlawful flight to avoid prosecution and capital murder of a person under 10 years of age.
It wasn’t immediately clear where Singh’s capture occurred, but FBI officials in an X post thanked their partners in India for coordinating.
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The Investigation
Tarrant County District Attorney Phil Sorrells said in a statement that their office was told by their federal partners that Rodriguez-Singh has been arrested and is being transported back to the country to face justice.
A sign seeks information about Noel Rodriguez-Alvarez at the Everman Civic Center on Monday, April 10, 2023, in Everman. Police have shifted their investigation from a missing endangered child search to a death investigation in the case of the missing 6-year-old boy from Everman whose mother and step father fled the county.
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The Background
Authorities had been searching for Rodriguez-Singh for more than two years.
In March 2023, Everman police conducted a welfare check for Rodriguez-Singh’s 6-year-old son, Noel Rodriguez-Alvarez, after family members reported he hadn’t been seen since October 2022.
Officials said Rodriguez-Singh allegedly lied to authorities about Noel’s whereabouts and told them he had been staying with his biological father in Mexico since November 2022.
However, the boy’s father later told police he was deported before Noel was born and hadnever met him, according to an arrest-warrant affidavit.
Two days after speaking with investigators, Rodriguez-Singh, along with her husband and other children, boarded a flight and headed to India, the native country of Noel’s stepfather, Arshdeep Singh. Noel wasn’t listed as a passenger on the flight.
Authorities say they believe Rodriguez-Singh has not been back in the U.S. since.
Relatives and witnesses previously told police that Rodriguez-Singh abused Noel and referred to him as “evil, possessed or having a demon in him.”
Noel was diagnosed with several illnesses, including speech delay, esotropia in both eyes and chronic lung disease, among others.
Noel was presumed dead in April 2023 after a search of the family’s home led investigators to believe there were once human remains inside a shed on the property.
The Charges
FBI Dallas Special Agent in Charge R. Joseph Rothrock speaks during a news conference to announce Cindy Rodriguez-Singh is being added to the FBI’s Top Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list, Tuesday
