Carlos Palazuelos told reporters he was held at a traffic stop Tuesday and claimed to not have heard about the case
A man detained by authorities in Arizona investigating the disappearance of Today show host Savannah Guthrie’s mother was released early on Wednesday after several hours of questioning, according to reports.
An individual who identified himself to reporters as Carlos Palazuelos said he was the person held after a traffic stop on Tuesday in Rio Rico, about an hour’s drive from the Tucson area home from where Nancy Guthrie, 84, was reported missing on 1 February.
“I hope they get the suspect, because I’m not it,” he told the New York Times from what he said was his wife and mother-in-law’s home in Rio Rico, claiming not to have heard about the case.
The Pima county sheriff’s department announced on Tuesday night, nine days after Guthrie vanished, that deputies had “detained a subject during a traffic stop” and that the person was “being questioned in connection to the Nancy Guthrie investigation”.
