The Arizona ex-con who was detained and then released after a SWAT raid on his home involving Nancy Guthrie has denied having anything to do with her disappearance in his first interview since the incident.
Luke Daley, 37, was held Feb. 13, then quickly cut loose after questioning — and insists cops had the wrong man.
“It’s not me,” he told “True Crime Arizona” host Briana Whitney in an interview released Monday. “I have nothing to do with this case.”
Daley’s 77-year-old mother was also questioned as part of the cops’ probe.
Speculation swirled online that Daley — who has a felony arrest record for numerous drug and weapons charges from as recently as last year — was the man seen wearing a mask and breaking into Nancy’s home in security footage from the night she disappeared on Feb. 1.
But Daley said he didn’t see the resemblance — and urged people not to give into the “hive mind” furor of amateur online detectives over the case of TV star Savannah Guthrie’s missing mom.
“I, like everyone else, just want Nancy to come home and be safe,” Daley said.
“But that being said, I have nothing to do with this case,” he said, adding that he didn’t know who was involved and would tell investigators if he did.
Daley and his mother have been among just a handful of people detained since Nancy vanished from her Tucson home Feb. 1 – with each of them cut loose after just hours of questioning.
Daley’s Range Rover was also seized by police, though it remains unclear whether it has also been returned.
His detention initially stirred excitement, especially considering Daley’s criminal past.
It included 18 months behind bars from 2019 to 2020 after he was convicted of solicitation of drugs and flight from law enforcement, along with a 2022 conviction for selling drugs that left him with four years probation.
As recently as 2025, Daley was arrested in Arizona for possession of a gun and fentanyl but was allowed to remain free by a judge.
Daley’s lawyer has previously insisted that the ex-con had nothing to do with Nancy’s vanishing.
“Mr. Daley has no link whatsoever to Nancy Guthrie and has no information related to her kidnapping,” the lawyer has said.
“Like the entire Tucson community, both Mr. Daley and his mother are hopeful that Nancy will be returned to her family unharmed.
DNA found at Nancy’s home could also corroborate that – as Daley’s genetic material is likely in databases, and so far police have found not positive matches from evidence obtained.
Nancy was missing a month as of Sunday, with no known leads identified.
