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- 0:00Speaker 1: Crime Alart hourly update, Breaking crime news Now. I'm Nicole Parton.
- 0:04Speaker 1: A man claiming to be the person of interest in
- 0:07Speaker 1: the Nancy Guthrie kidnapping case has been released from custody.
- 0:12Speaker 1: Identifying himself only as Carlos, he stated that he was
- 0:16Speaker 1: apprehended during a traffic stop. Speaking to reporters outside his
- 0:20Speaker 1: residence in Rio Rico, Arizona, on Wednesday morning, Carlos expressed
- 0:24Speaker 1: his surprise at being pulled over, insisting that he has
- 0:28Speaker 1: no knowledge of who Nancy Guthrie is or why law
- 0:32Speaker 1: enforcement suspects him of any involvement in her abduction. He said,
- 0:37Speaker 1: I didn't do anything. I'm innocent. I've more whereabouts? Where
- 0:42Speaker 1: do I? Where was I? And all that book? Yeah,
- 0:44Speaker 1: I work intuson PLS repackagees. No, they just came up
- 0:48Speaker 1: to date ZD until right now. All I know is
- 0:51Speaker 1: that they show me my in law a picture of
- 0:54Speaker 1: somebody wearing a mask or something and they supposedly look
- 0:58Speaker 1: like my eyes. That's it, That's all I learned. Authorities
- 1:00Speaker 1: have not yet verified whether Carlos is indeed the person
- 1:04Speaker 1: who was detained and or that he has been released.
- 1:07Speaker 1: As of early Wednesday, a representative from the Pima County
- 1:10Speaker 1: Sheriff's Department confirmed that Nancy Guthrie remains missing. Angelica Carrillo
- 1:16Speaker 1: stated this information as officials were wrapping up a search
- 1:19Speaker 1: of a residence in Rio Rico, which was prompted earlier
- 1:23Speaker 1: by that traffic stop involving the person of interest. Josephine Maddix,
- 1:28Speaker 1: the homeowner, told the media that her son in law
- 1:31Speaker 1: is the person of interest who was detained, but firmly
- 1:34Speaker 1: claimed he had no connection to Guthrie's disappearance, a statement
- 1:38Speaker 1: that has not been substantiated by authorities. Pima County Sheriff
- 1:42Speaker 1: Chris Nanios informed a CBS affiliate KOLDTV that there have
- 1:47Speaker 1: been no leads on Guthrie's whereabouts. A woman from Rio
- 1:51Speaker 1: Rico insisted that her son in law, the man calling
- 1:55Speaker 1: himself Carlos, who is a delivery driver in Tucson, was
- 1:59Speaker 1: wrongfully empl the case. They're just invading my property, Maddox
- 2:03Speaker 1: remarked to the media, stating that investigators were searching her
- 2:06Speaker 1: home and taking numerous photographs. I told them you can
- 2:10Speaker 1: go in and check. There's nobody there. I have nothing
- 2:13Speaker 1: to hide, She recounted the moment she returned home to
- 2:17Speaker 1: find her son outside in handcuffs. Maddox also mentioned that
- 2:21Speaker 1: the silver vehicle stopped by authorities during her son in
- 2:24Speaker 1: law's detention belongs to her daughter. Investigators presented Maddox with
- 2:29Speaker 1: surveillance footage from Guthrie's residence, which was released on Monday,
- 2:33Speaker 1: asking her if she recognized the person captured in the video.
- 2:37Speaker 1: She noted that her son in law does not possess
- 2:39Speaker 1: any of the clothing worn by that person. Earlier, FBI
- 2:43Speaker 1: Director Cash Ptel had released images and videos related to
- 2:47Speaker 1: the case showing a figure in a ski mask and gloves,
- 2:51Speaker 1: carrying a backpack and armed. The FBI and Sheriff's Department
- 2:56Speaker 1: clarified that these images were obtained from residual data located
- 3:01Speaker 1: in back in systems with assistance from Google in assessing
- 3:05Speaker 1: the nest camera footage. Following the release of these images,
- 3:09Speaker 1: search and rescue teams along with the FBI, began canvassing
- 3:13Speaker 1: the neighborhood where Nancy Guthrie's other daughter, Annie Guthrie, lives.
- 3:18Speaker 1: The investigation remains ongoing. Count on Crime Alert hourly update
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