A man detained by Arizona authorities in connection with the disappearance ofNancy Guthriehas spoken out after being released, insisting he isinnocentand describing hours of confusion during what he says was a wrongful detention.
The individual, who identified himself only as “Carlos,” was stopped south of Tucson on Tuesday afternoon and held by Pima County Sheriff’s deputies until midnight. Authoritiesconfirmedearlier that a man had been detained during a traffic stop as part of the investigation into Guthrie’s disappearance and that asearchof a location linked to him was being prepared, which Carlos revealed was his “in-laws’ house.”
Immediately following his release, we spoke to a man who says he was detained by Pima County Sheriff's deputies for "kidnapping" Nancy Guthrie.@[email protected]/3jj7mxSGFO
— ABC15 Arizona (@abc15)February 11, 2026
Speakingexclusively to ABC15shortly after midnight, upon his release, Carlos told reporterFord Hatchetthe had never heard of Guthrie before his arrest. At first, Carlos refused the interview before returning to Hatchett to answer some questions.
“They didn’t even tell me what’s going on until the detectives got here … They told me I was being detained for kidnapping, and I asked them, ‘Kidnapping of who?’”
“Nancy Guthrie,” Hatchett said.
Carlos replied: “Yeah, that’s her. And I told him, I work in Tucson for GLS. I might have delivered a package to your house, but I never kidnapped anybody. They held me from like 4 p.m. [local time] to right now.”
He added that officers cited limited evidence in their decision to release him, but warned that other agencies involved in the search may want to question him.
“Like, they didn’t have no – it was insufficient evidence. Like, they only had a phone on me. That’s all they had,” he said.
Source: Drudge Report
