As state, local and federal officials continue to come up empty-handed as they try to find out what happened to Nancy Guthrie, the elderly mother of television personality Savannah Guthrie, a local Democratic lawmaker pounced on YouTubers and influencers who have flooded the community trying to make names for themselves.
In a post on X and an appearance on CNN, State Rep. Alma Hernandez (D-Tucson) lashed out and claimed outsiders pretending to be journalists are making the jobs of investigators more difficult as they spread rumors and provide uninformed speculation about what appears to be a kidnapping.
Her message to the intruders: “PLEASE STOP. Go home.”
On X, she wrote, “As someone who lives & represents Tucson/ Pima County, I am so sick of watching the ‘reporting’ grifting, insane speculation, lies, and BS by random wannabe journalists and YouTubers who have now caused more harm than good to this entire situation and put this serious case in jeopardy. Please GO HOME.”
Short of that, she implored, “Let law enforcement do their jobs. Stop following them during swat operations and playing detectives. I am sick of the constant LIES from those who can't even spell Tucson and clearly have never been to our city.”
‘This home is not near downtown or midtown, so posting random videos of people walking in yards ain't it y'all, no, Mexicans don't all look the same, yes, our sheriff should probably stay off social media and not speak to the press anymore,” she continued. “Yes, this is sad, and we all want Nancy home. But seriously, PLEASE STOP. Go home.”
Appearing on CNN on Sunday, she confessed to host Fredricka Whitfield she is “extremely frustrated” with the true crime YouTubers, explaining, “They’re trying to find anything at this point to stay relevant and get the clicks on social media and it’s extremely frustrating.”
“And I felt like I needed to call it out because every single day when I log on to social media … it’s a random ‘reporter’ if you want to call it that who’s saying, ‘Oh, I’m following FBI. I’m on the mission to go and find these individuals that they’re serving a warrant on,’ and I just think that’s extremely inappropriate,” she added.