A SWAT team took one person into custody Friday in connection to the disappearance of 23-year-old University of Utah sorority sister Mackenzie Lueck.
“SLCPD took one person into custody this morning regarding the Mackenzie Lueck case,” the Salt Lake City Police Department tweeted, without elaborating.
More information will be available at a press conference, scheduled for 11:30 a.m. local time, the department said.
The arrested individual, as well as another man, were seen outside an apartment complex around 9:30 a.m., walking toward the SWAT team with their hands over their heads, local station KSL reported. It was unclear whether the other man was still in custody.
The man and a second man were taken into custody about 9:20 a.m. at an apartment complex at 1028 S. West Temple. Police later said on Twitter that only one person was taken into custody in the case.
Meanwhile, local contractor Brian Wolf told Fox News that a man cops previously identified as a person of interest in the case reached out to him in April to request a secret, soundproof room in his basement.
“He slowly added on other requests, like building a secret door and adding hooks to the wall,” Wolf told the network, adding that the man had requested he come to the home and give him an estimate for the cost of the work.
The homeowner wanted the construction done as soon as possible, “before his girlfriend got back into town,” Wolf told Fox.
Wolf said he turned down the offer, claiming he was too busy — but he was really just “weirded out.”
It wasn’t immediately clear whether the person in custody was the homeowner.
Lueck, who is from El Segundo, California, vanished within hours of arriving at the Salt Lake City airport on June 17 from a trip home for her grandmother’s funeral.
The college senior called a Lyft from the airport to Hatch Park in North Salt Lake, where the ride-share driver saw her jump into another vehicle just before 3 a.m. with an unknown individual, authorities said.
Investigators had also been digging into Lueck’s dating apps after receiving tips that she was interested in older men and casually seeing several people.
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“SLCPD took one person into custody this morning regarding the Mackenzie Lueck case,” the Salt Lake City Police Department tweeted, without elaborating.
More information will be available at a press conference, scheduled for 11:30 a.m. local time, the department said.
The arrested individual, as well as another man, were seen outside an apartment complex around 9:30 a.m., walking toward the SWAT team with their hands over their heads, local station KSL reported. It was unclear whether the other man was still in custody.
The man and a second man were taken into custody about 9:20 a.m. at an apartment complex at 1028 S. West Temple. Police later said on Twitter that only one person was taken into custody in the case.
Meanwhile, local contractor Brian Wolf told Fox News that a man cops previously identified as a person of interest in the case reached out to him in April to request a secret, soundproof room in his basement.
“He slowly added on other requests, like building a secret door and adding hooks to the wall,” Wolf told the network, adding that the man had requested he come to the home and give him an estimate for the cost of the work.
The homeowner wanted the construction done as soon as possible, “before his girlfriend got back into town,” Wolf told Fox.
Wolf said he turned down the offer, claiming he was too busy — but he was really just “weirded out.”
It wasn’t immediately clear whether the person in custody was the homeowner.
Lueck, who is from El Segundo, California, vanished within hours of arriving at the Salt Lake City airport on June 17 from a trip home for her grandmother’s funeral.
The college senior called a Lyft from the airport to Hatch Park in North Salt Lake, where the ride-share driver saw her jump into another vehicle just before 3 a.m. with an unknown individual, authorities said.
Investigators had also been digging into Lueck’s dating apps after receiving tips that she was interested in older men and casually seeing several people.
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