A lady needed for capital homicide within the suspected death of her 6-year-old son has been arrested greater than two years after she boarded a flight from the US to India, FBI Director Kash Patel introduced on Wednesday.
Cindy Rodriguez Singh, who had been named a high 10 most needed fugitive by the FBI, faces costs in Texas for allegedly murdering her son, Noel Alvarez, authorities mentioned.
The FBI launched this photograph of Cindy Rodriguez Singh.
FBI
Noel had not been seen since October 2022, in accordance with police in Everman, Texas, the place the household lived on the time. He was final seen alive across the delivery of his twin sisters, “showing unhealthy and malnourished,” police mentioned.
Everman police carried out a welfare examine for him on March 20, 2023, on the request of the Texas Division of Household and Protecting Providers, in accordance with the FBI. Throughout the welfare examine interview, Rodriguez Singh allegedly lied to officers about Noel’s whereabouts when she mentioned the boy had been dwelling along with his organic father in Mexico since November 2022, in accordance with the FBI.
Two days later, she boarded a flight to India along with her husband and 6 different kids, the FBI mentioned. Not on the flight was Noel, whose mom had utilized for passports for all of her kids besides him in November 2022, native police mentioned.
Noel has by no means been discovered and is presumed useless, in accordance with state and federal authorities.
Rodriguez Singh just isn’t believed to have returned to the U.S. since boarding the flight to India, the FBI mentioned.

Cindy Rodriguez Singh, who was named a high 10 most needed fugitive, has been arrested.
FBI
She was charged with capital homicide of an individual below 10 years of age in October 2023 in Tarrant County district courtroom, authorities mentioned. A month later, a federal arrest warrant for the cost of illegal flight to keep away from prosecution was issued towards her, the FBI mentioned.
Rodriguez Singh, 40, was added to the FBI’s “Ten Most Wished Fugitives” record in July. The company had been providing as much as a $250,000 reward for data resulting in her arrest and conviction.
Patel thanked the FBI’s native companions in Texas, the Justice Division, and “in addition to companions in India for the coordinating.” He didn’t say when or the place particularly Rodriguez Singh was arrested.
“That is the 4th ’10 Most Wished” fugitive arrested within the final 7 months,” he mentioned in a post on X. “That is a credit score to large subject work, legislation enforcement companions, intelligence operatives, and an administration who’s letting good cops do their jobs.”
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz said on X that he’s “glad to see Rodriguez Singh being introduced again to Texas from India, the place she’s going to lastly face justice for the alleged heinous crime of murdering her baby.”
