‘They raided my house’: Arizona woman says authorities stormed her home in Guthrie case
A Rio Rico, Arizona, woman told reporters late Tuesday night that authorities raided her home amid the rapidly unfolding investigation into the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie – but insisted that she and her family have no connection to the case.
“They’re investigating my son-in-law,” the woman told CNN late Tuesday night, adding that authorities were acting on a tip. “I just have nothing to do with that either. I don’t know what’s going on. They’re just invading my property.”
According to the woman, deputies and federal agents suddenly stormed her residence, ordering occupants out as they searched and documented the scene. “They’re going in and out of my house taking a lot of pictures,” she said.
“I mean, like I told them, we’re not hiding anything,” she added. The woman told reporters Tuesday that she permitted investigators to search her home.
“I gave them permission to go and search. There’s nothing in the house. You won’t find anything because we don’t have nothing to hide,” she said, adding that her family had no prior knowledge of the 84-year-old missing of “Today” show co-host Savannah Guthrie.
“Nothing. Nothing,” she said when asked whether her son-in-law, who CNN reported had been the individual taken into custody, had ever mentioned Guthrie.
“If I knew anything about her…I said I saw her on Facebook, but I didn’t read what was going on with her because I don’t know her.”
The woman identified herself as the mother-in-law of the man detained earlier Tuesday during a traffic stop in Rio Rico, about 60 miles south of the Guthrie home. Authorities have confirmed the individual is being questioned, but no charges have been announced.
Investigators were seen probing a vehicle at the scene as the investigation continued.