Arizona man detained in SWAT operation denies link to Nancy Guthrie abduction

TUCSON, Ariz. — Two ex-cons from Tucson are facing aggravated online scrutiny successful the Nancy Guthrie lawsuit contempt authorities accusing neither of engagement — adjacent aft 1 was detained for hours successful a SWAT raid and released without charges.

They are Luke Daley, 36, and Kayla Day, 32. Neither person been accused of playing a relation successful Guthrie’s disappearance.

Day was already successful jailhouse astatine the Pima County Adult Detention Complex during the cognition targeting Daley past week, for allegedly skipping tribunal dates connected unrelated charges. The raid went connected for hours connected Feb. 13, with dozens of instrumentality enforcement vehicles seen astatine a location successful the Catalina Foothills vicinity and much surrounding a Range Rover astatine a adjacent Culver's restaurant.

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Pima County Sheriffs progressive successful a instrumentality enforcement cognition astatine the intersection of Camino de Michael and East Orange Grove Road Tucson, Arizona connected Friday, February 13, 2026. The determination is astir 2 miles from Nancy Guthrie's home. (DWS for Fox News Digital)  (DWS for Fox News Digital)

Court documents obtained by Fox News Digital item the May 2025 arrests of some of them successful a Walmart parking lot.

Daley was arrested by the Marana Police Department successful Pima County connected May 15, 2025, accused of selling drugs, possessing paraphernalia and a weapon contempt a anterior felony conviction, according to the filings.

Officers allegedly witnessed "indicators of amerciable cause transactions" centered connected a conveyance helium was driving.

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Although Daley’s ailment does not place the passenger, Day was besides arrested connected May 15 astatine the aforesaid Walmart location, and her ailment states she was with a antheral driver. She besides faces drugs and weapons charges successful transportation with the incident.

Police approached the conveyance wherever they saw a utilized syringe with heroin-like residue, according to a probable origin affidavit. Daley and the rider were subsequently detained. 

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A hunt of the conveyance recovered heroin paraphernalia, a 9 mm pistol with a loaded magazine, astir a 1000 opioid pills, suboxone strips and $1,366 successful cash, constabulary alleged. 

Daley appeared successful tribunal connected Jan. 12, and is presently retired of custody. His assemblage proceedings was rescheduled from Feb. 24 to May 19, according to tribunal documents.

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Luke Daley booking picture. (Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry)

He was the people of a hunt warrant connected Feb. 13, successful which Pima County deputies and the FBI detained radical for hours, including Daley and his mother. They were released without charges. None person been accused of playing a relation successful Guthrie’s suspected abduction. 

A Range Rover was towed during the incident, but it was not instantly wide whether it belonged to him. A neighbour told Fox News Digital earlier this week that Daley’s totaled Dodge Charger had been towed by his security supplier aft the raid owed to an unrelated crash.

The neighbour added that Daley was "pissed" astir the SWAT raid, and his parent was upset due to the fact that she doesn’t cognize what’s going connected — adding that "everyone wants Nancy Guthrie found."

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Kayla Noel Day booking picture. (Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry)

The Pima County Sheriff declined to remark regarding Friday’s enactment and whether immoderate vehicles towed truthful acold successful the lawsuit had been returned to their owners. 

The Range Rover, which had been searched astatine the country and sealed with grounds portion earlier the tow, was not disposable from the perimeter of the sheriff’s impound batch erstwhile visited by Fox News Digital Tuesday. 

"We person nary further comments astatine this clip too the accusation released successful our updates," a nationalist accusation serviceman told Fox News Digital.

An unidentified antheral is detained pursuing a postulation halt successful Tucson, Arizona, Friday, Feb. 13, 2026. A Range Rover was towed from the scene, but helium was released without charges. (Kat Ramirez for Fox News Digital)

Additional tribunal documents uncover Day was besides arrested connected March 19, 2025, connected 4 much drug-related charges.

Authorities allegedly recovered Day passed retired successful the driver’s seat. They saw successful "plain view" the beingness of cause paraphernalia, according to the complaint. She was asked to measurement retired of the conveyance and allegedly responded with slurred code and confusion. 

She was arrested, and arresting officers said they recovered opioid pills, a achromatic crystalline substance, a achromatic tar substance and grounds of heroin use.

A warrant was issued for Day’s apprehension successful January, accusing her of missing tribunal dates successful her pending cases.

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Pima County sheriff and FBI instrumentality distant a Range Rover from a Culver’s parking batch successful Tucson, Ariz. aboriginal Saturday, Feb. 14, 2026. (Ty ONeil/AP Photo)

She is presently being held without bail, according to the Pima County Sheriff’s Department, but she refused transport to her Feb. 18, tribunal date. 

It was rescheduled to Feb. 27, and the Pima County Sheriff’s Department was ordered to transport Day "by immoderate means necessary," according to tribunal documents.

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Daley’s lawyer Chris Scileppi and Day's lawyer Nicholas Brereton some declined to remark erstwhile contacted by Fox News Digital.

In a connection to 12 News, a section outlet, Scileppi disavowed immoderate transportation to the Guthrie case.

Photos released connected Feb. 10, 2025, amusement a "subject" connected Nancy Guthrie's property.  (Provided by FBI)

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"Scileppi Law tin corroborate that Luke Daley was the taxable of 2 hunt warrants issued and served connected February 13, 2026," helium said. "Mr. Daley and his parent were some detained by instrumentality enforcement portion the hunt warrants were being executed.

Both were released without charges, helium said.

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"Mr. Daley has nary nexus whatsoever to Nancy Guthrie and has nary accusation related to her kidnapping," Scileppi added. "Like the full Tucson community, some Mr. Daley and his parent are hopeful that Nancy volition beryllium returned to her household unharmed."

An undated photograph of Nancy Guthrie and Savannah Guthrie provided by NBC successful repsonse to the disappearance of the 84 year-old parent of the Today Show host. (Courtesy of NBC)

A masked fishy successful Guthrie's evident abduction has been described arsenic lasting betwixt 5 feet, 9 inches and 5 feet, 10 inches tall, with an mean build. He was carrying a achromatic Ozark Trail marque backpack and what appears connected video to beryllium a holstered pistol.

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She is believed to person been abducted from her location successful Tucson's Catalina Foothills astir 2:30 a.m. connected Feb. 1 — astir 2 miles from Daley's home.

Authorities person said that DNA recovered from a mitt successful the country was not a lucifer for the FBI's CODIS database — suggesting it does not beryllium to idiosyncratic with a transgression past similar Daley oregon Day.