Noel Rodriguez-Alvarez still missing, family bound for India

Noel Rodriguez-Alvarez, a missing 6-year-old boy from North Texas, appears in a photo being circulated by law enforcement. (Tarrant County Sheriff’s Office)

The family of a 6-year-old boy who has been missing since last November boarded an international flight bound for India right before an Amber Alert was issued, police in North Texas claim.

On March 20, child protective services agents relayed information that Noel Rodriguez-Alvarez had not been seen in months, according to Everman Police Chief Craig Spencer. Once officers made contact with the boy’s mother, Cindy Rodriguez-Singh, she said her son had been living with his biological father in Mexico since November. At the time, the mother’s word and provision of the father’s contact information was enough to preclude further investigation, police said.

Everman is a small town some 11 miles due south of Fort Worth and is part of the broader Metroplex region.

Three days later, child protective agents followed up with the EPD and said they received additional information from other family members who indicated the boy’s whereabouts were unknown and “expressed significant concern for his welfare,” the police chief said during a Sunday press conference. So, Spencer said, his officers picked up the case again, eventually locating Rodriguez-Alvarez’s biological father, who said the boy was not, in fact, living with him in Mexico. Rather, the father said, he had been deported before he ever met his son.