Nancy Guthrie Exclusive: Brian Entin Gives Inside Look at SWAT Raid He Thought Was a Turning Point
About two weeks into the Nancy Guthrie case, the Pima County Sheriff's Department deployed a SWAT team to a neighborhood about two miles from her Arizona home. A perimeter was quickly set-but one person was especially close to the action: NewsNation reporter Brian Entin.
At the time, Entin was filming inside the perimeter and said that authorities "detained a man and a woman from the house and they also detained a man from a traffic stop at a Culver's restaurant very close to that house."
No arrests were made and, while the raid was linked to the Guthrie case, it didn't provide the answers that everyone has been looking for.
Parade got an opportunity to talk with Entin in a recent interview and we asked him about that night-how he was feeling and what it was like.
"We somehow managed to get into the perimeter when they were busting inside the house, and we were live on NewsNation," Entin tells me, adding that his priority was making sure he didn't blow the operation's cover. "You don't want to put the officers' lives in jeopardy. So I was trying to be really careful," he continued, adding, "we stayed in the car."
Although Entin's coverage was on NewsNation, he made sure not to disclose the location of the raid. There were some intense moments, but once people were brought out of the home, Entin says things were "calmer."
Among those detained that evening were a man named Luke Daley and his mother, Mary. Daley would later sit down with Arizona reporter Briana Whitney for an interview, during which he said he had nothing to do with Guthrie's disappearance.
"I, like everyone else, just want Nancy to come home and be safe, but, that being said, I have nothing to do with this case," he told Whitney.
Although the raid didn't end in an arrest, Entin thought that could have been the case's big break.
"At that point, I thought maybe this was it, maybe this was gonna be the resolution," he says. "They weren't going to find Nancy, but they were going to find who actually was responsible. And I didn't want to do anything to get in the way of that. But at the same time, I wanted to do my job."
Guthrie, 84, has been missing since Sunday, Feb. 1. Anyone with information about her disappearance is asked to call the FBI (1-800-CALL-FBI).
Entin is still covering the Guthrie case. He will be hosting a new television special, NewsNation Presents: The Nancy Guthrie Mystery, that will air on the CW on Wednesday, May 6, at 9 p.m. Eastern.
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This story was originally published May 1, 2026 at 6:24 AM.