Nancy Guthrie live updates as person of interest is released, home searched in Rio Rico, Arizona

A man who says he was the person of interest being questioned in the kidnapping of Nancy Guthrie has been released.

The man, who only wants to be identified as Carlos, said he was detained after a traffic stop.

He spoke with reporters early Wednesday outside his home in Rio Rico, Arizona:

He said he was shocked when he got pulled over, doesn’t know who Guthrie is or why law enforcement thought he might be connected to her kidnapping.

“I didnt do anything. … I’m innocent,” he said.

Authorities haven’t confirmed that Carlos was the person of interest or that the person of interest has been released. CBS News has reached out to the Pima County Sheriff’s Department and the FBI about Carlos.

Nancy Guthrie still hasn’t been found, a spokesperson for the Pima County Sheriff’s Department told CBS News early Wednesday.

Angelica Carrillo made the statement as authorities prepared to conclude a search of a home in Rio Rico, Arizona that followed the detention of a person of interest in the case at a traffic stop hours earlier.

Josephina Maddox told reporters outside the home that it is hers and her son-in-law is the person of interest but that he had noting to do with Guthrie’s abduction — assertions authorities haven’t confirmed.

Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos told CBS Tucson affiliate KOLD-TV early Wednesday that there have been no signs of Guthrie.

A woman in Rio Rico, Arizona told reporters her son-in-law is the person of interest being held in the kidnapping of Nancy Guthrie but had “nothing to do with it.” There was no confirmation of her assertions.

Josefina Maddox told reporters outside a home authorities were searching that it’s hers.

“(Investigators told me) they had somebody give a tip that the lady (Guthrie) was in the house,” Maddox said. “… I don’t know who she is. I don’t know anything about her. … I told them you can go in and check the house; there’s nobody there. I have nothing to hide. … They’re investigating my son-in-law. … He had nothing to do with it.”

Her son-in-law is a delivery driver who works in Tucson, Maddox said.

“… They’re just invading my property,” she said. “I told him (an investigator) they’re going in and out of my house, taking a lot of pictures and everything. I mean, like, I told him, we’re not hiding anything. I gave him permission. You can go and search and there’s nothing in my house. You won’t find anything because we don’t have nothing to hide.”

Maddox said when she got home her son was outside the house, in handcuffs.

Maddox also said the silver vehicle stopped by the authorities when the person of interest was detained is her daughter’s.

She said investigators showed her the surveillance videos from Guthrie’s home that were released Monday to see if she recognized the person in them but her son-in-law doesn’t own any of the clothing that person was wearing.

CBS Tucson affiliate KOLD-TV was among the outlets at the scene.

Local and federal authorities were searching the residence of the person of interest who has been detained in connection with the abduction of Nancy Guthrie, two sources familiar with the investigation told CBS News late Tuesday night.

The person was taken into custody following a traffic stop in Rio Rico, a community in southern Arizona located near the Mexican border, the sources said.

The search is under a court authorized warrant, the sources said. 

An FBI spokesperson had previously said the agency was assisting the Pima County Sheriff’s Department with the search of the Rio Rico residence. 

The search was expected to take several hours, the sheriff’s department said in a statement. 

A spokesperson says 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, Arizona. They said the search is related to the Nancy Guthrie investigation and that law enforcement will be at the location for several hours. 

Rio Rico is located south of Tucson and about 12 miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border.

A senior Trump administration official told CBS News late Tuesday night that the White House is monitoring the situation in Tucson closely. 

Earlier Tuesday, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt had told reporters that she and President had been reviewing the latest surveillance video and photos, and that Mr. Trump’s initial reaction to the situation was “pure disgust.” 

Deputies from the Pima County Sheriff’s Department “detained a subject during a traffic stop south of Tucson,” and that person was being questioned in connection with Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance, the office said. 

It did not specify if the person detained Tuesday night was the same subject seen in the surveillance video released earlier in the day.

Details of the operation to detain a person of interest in the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie were scant, but the person was apparently taken into custody quickly on Tuesday night. It was not clear what brought law enforcement to the location or the person of interest.

A person of interest has been detained in connection with the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie, the mother of “Today” show co-host Savannah Guthrie, two law enforcement sources told CBS News. The were detained in a city south of Tucson, the sources said.

It was not immediately clear if the person detained was the same person seen in surveillance video and images released by the FBI earlier Tuesday.

There was also no immediate word on the whereabouts or condition of 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie, who has been missing for 10 days and was without medication her family said she needed to take daily.

Earlier Tuesday, FBI Director Kash Patel shared images and videos of a subject in the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie. The images, which were recovered from the home security carmera, showed a person wearing a ski mask and gloves. The person was carrying a backpack and appeared to also possibly have a gun holstered on their belt.

The FBI and the sheriff’s department said the images were recovered from “residual data located in backend systems.” Two law enforcement sources told CBS News the FBI worked with Google to get the Nest camera video

After those images were released, search and rescue teams, along with the FBI, began canvassing the nearby neighborhood where Nancy Guthrie’s other daughter, Annie Guthrie, lives. 

It was not immediately clear if the subject seen in the videos was the person who was detained Tuesday night.

Members of the regional SWAT were activated to work with the Pima County Sheriff’s Department on Tuesday night, Oro Valley Police told CBS News.