Man Released After Being Questioned About Nancy Guthrie Disappearance: ‘I Didn’t Do Anything’

Police have released a man who had been detained in connection to the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie.

The 84-year-old mother of the Today show host Savannah Guthrie has been missing since January 31. Police authorities in Arizona — who declared her disappearance a crime on February 2 — confirmed they detained an individual south of Tucson on Tuesday, February 10.

The man, identified only as Carlos, was taken into custody after a traffic stop and his home nearby in Rio Rico, near the Mexican border south of Tucson, Arizona, was also searched. But he was released on Wednesday, February 11, per The New York Times.

“I didn’t do anything. I hope they get the suspect, because I’m not it,” Carlos said, according to a video posted by the outlet. “They better do their job and find the suspect that did it so that they can clear my name.”

He told reporters that he didn’t know anything about Savannah or her mother and that police had asked “no questions.”

The update comes hours after the Pima County Sheriff’s office had released images and a video of a masked person wearing gloves on Nancy Guthrie’s doorstep on the night of her disappearance.

“Working with our partners — as of this morning, law enforcement has uncovered these previously inaccessible new images showing an armed individual appearing to have tampered with the camera at Nancy Guthrie’s front door the morning of her disappearance,” FBI Director Kash Patel wrote on X on February 10.

“Over the last eight days, the FBI and Pima County Sheriff’s Department have been working closely with our private sector partners to continue to recover any images or video footage from Nancy Guthrie‘s home that may have been lost, corrupted, or inaccessible due to a variety of factors, including the removal of recording devices,” Patel added. “The video was recovered from residual data located in backend systems.”

Savannah, 54, has publicly pleaded for her mother’s safe return along with her siblings.

She posted the images of the suspect on her Instagram and said: “We believe she is still alive. Bring her home.”

Anyone with information about Nancy’s disappearance is encouraged to call the FBI tip line at 1-800-225-5324.