The FBI’s Evidence Response Team, in conjunction with the Pima County Sheriff’s Department, is conducting a “court-authorized search” of a residence in Rio Rico, Arizona, on Tuesday night as part of the investigation of the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie, the mother of broadcast journalist Savannah Guthrie. The search comes after law enforcement officials detained a person of interest in connection with Guthrie’s disappearance.
The FBI announced the court-authorized search late Tuesday night and said it is expected to last several hours, according to multiple reports. Reports of the search were also shared on various social media accounts.
“From FBI source to @CBSNews: Currently, the FBI’s Evidence Response Team is assisting the Pima County Sheriff’s Department with a court-authorized search of a location in Rio Rico, AZ related to the Nancy Guthrie investigation,” posted Amelia Mugavero, a CBS News Texas reporter. “Law enforcement will be present at this location for several hours. We’re asking the public and media to avoid congesting the area.”
The residence being searched is that of the person who was detained, according to reports.
A video on X posted by “Arizona’s Family” producer Mac Colson showed a woman claiming that law enforcement officials were searching her house as part of the Guthrie investigation. She said that her son-in-law was being questioned by police “in connection with Guthrie’s disappearance.”
“BREAKING: Woman tells reporters that authorities are searching her home in Rio Rico,” read Colson’s post. “She says her son-in-law, Carlos, is being questioned by police in connection to Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance. She says Carlos is a delivery man for FedEx.”
The woman in the video expressed shock at the police presence at her house and at the search of her home. She said she didn’t know why they were doing so, and also that she had nothing to hide.
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“I don’t know, they came to us that somebody gave a tip that the lady was in my house,” the woman in the video said in reference to Nancy Guthrie. “We don’t know, we don’t know her at all. I don’t know who she is, I don’t know anything about her. They only said that they gave a tip that she was in my house and I told them ‘you can go in and search my house, there’s nobody there. I have nothing to hide, there’s nobody in my house, and I don’t know what’s going on.”
“They’re investigating my son-in-law; he’s got nothing to do with that either,” she responded to a question from a reporter. “I don’t know what else to say. They’re just invading my property, and I told them, they’re going in and out of my house, taking a lot of pictures and everything. Like I told them, we’re not hiding anything.”
