Officials say the person who was detained for questioning in the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie has been released. The Pima County Sheriff’s Department said in a statement Wednesday morning that deputies detained someone during a traffic stop south of Tucson. The department later said a location in Rio Rico, about an hour’s drive from Tucson, had been searched. It came hours after the FBI released surveillance images of a masked person with a handgun holster outside Guthrie’s front door the night she vanished. It was determined that the person questioned was not the same person captured on surveillance video.
Person detained in Guthrie kidnapping case released
Feb 11, 2026 | 5:04 AM






