Police: Noel Rodriguez-Alvarez's stepfather stole $10K day family fled
TARRANT COUNTY (CBSNewsTexas) - Law enforcement officials provided an update in the search for Noel Rodriguez-Alvarez, 6, on April 25.
They said they have cleared 500 acres of land and recovered some items, but it's currently unclear if those items are related to the child's disappearance.
"Many of the locations are off some busy roadways," Everman Police Chief Craig Spencer explained during a Tuesday afternoon press conference. "No more searches are planned at this time," he added.
All of the items recovered were sent to a crime lab for processing.
Spencer reiterated the importance of the searches, even if items found don't link to Noel.
"Each day, we get closer and closer to the answers we all seek. Although it has been a month, and we have not found Noel, rest assured, we have not stopped the fight, not even close," said Spencer.
And while Spencer couldn't get into the specifics of the massive amount of data investigators are going through, he said that data was vital to the investigation.
Data has shown that Noel's disappearance happened near the last week of October 2022.
Records from a credit card account belonging to Noel's stepfather Arshdeep Singh show one way plane tickets to India were bought for the child's mother and siblings. And a large cash deposit went into Singh's bank account on March 22, hours before the family fled.
Spencer said Singh had access to company's safe, and he allegedly fraudulently altered the company's cash deposits record. He then removed $10,000, according to Spencer from the safe. After, Singh traveled to nearest bank, and deposited $8,000 into his own personal account, Spencer said.
Thus, an additional warrant for felony theft was issued for Singh.
April 25 marks one month since initial Texas AMBER alert was issued for Noel. Law enforcement officials have spent thousands of man hours on this case, followed more than 70 leads.
They've issued than 24 arrest warrants, search warrants, subpoenas and conducted countless interviews, according to Spencer.
This investigation into what happened to Noel, and ultimately where he is has spanned state and country borders.
Anyone with information about this case is asked to call police at 817.293.2923.