New Delhi, Aug. 2 -- TUCSON - The armed personnel arrived at Carlos Palazuelos's house in Rio Rico on a February morning and held him for the next seven or eight hours. He is a delivery driver. He was never charged. The Pima County Sheriff's Office declined to comment on that morning when reached this week. Palazuelos's attorneys, however, have now done the commenting for him, in a notice of claim filed against the sheriff seeking $2.5 million.

publicly releasing the ransom notes that arrived after Nancy Guthrie disappeared from her home near Tucson on February 1. Six months into a case that has produced no suspects, no arrests, and no confirmed account of what happened to the 84-year-old mother of NBC's Today co-host Savannah Guthrie, i...