Law enforcement sources told ABC News that the FBI and Pima County Sheriff’s Department briefly arrested a second man and searched a home a short drive from Nancy Guthrie’s Catalina Foothills neighborhood late Friday into early Saturday, but there was no arrest and no sign of Guthrie.
Sources described the activity as “lead tracking” related to the Guthrie investigation.
A Pima County Sheriff’s deputy maintains a roadblock during the suspected raid on E. Placita de Michael and N. Placita de Rojelio in connection with the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie, mother of 84-year-old journalist and television host Savannah Guthrie, in the Catalina Foothills in Tucson, Arizona, February 13, 2026.
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The detained person, whose identity has not been revealed, is the second person to be interrogated in the case and then released.
Sheriff Chris Nanos told ABC News that no one will be fully exonerated until they are arrested. A man who identified himself as Carlos was arrested and released earlier this week in Rio Rico, Arizona.
FBI and Pima County Sheriff’s Department deputies process evidence from a newer-model gray Range Rover during the investigation into the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie, at a Culver’s restaurant in Tucson, Arizona, on February 13, 2026.
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It wasn’t immediately clear what led authorities to the home about two miles from where Nancy Guthrie lives, but it falls within a range where investigators asked residents to check their home security systems for footage from Jan. 1 — a month before she was kidnapped — to Feb. 2, the day after she was kidnapped. Investigators said they are interested in suspicious people or vehicles that may have been caught on camera.
– ABC News’ Aaron Katersky
