Investigators have taken into custody Aubrey Trail and Bailey Boswell, described as "persons of interest" in the disappearance of Sydney Loofe, law enforcement officials said Thursday.
Loofe, 24, remains missing. Crews spent hours Wednesday searching areas of Saline and Gage counties, including ponds and creeks.
Trail and Boswell were arrested on unrelated warrants, Lincoln Police Chief Jeff Bliemeister said. Randall Thysse, special agent in charge of the FBI field office in Omaha, said they were located somewhere in the Midwest only minutes prior to Thursday's 8:45 a.m. law enforcement briefing.
Thysse said the FBI is still seeking information from the public on Loofe's whereabouts and the investigation.
Anyone with information should call the FBI tip line, 402-493-8688, option 1.
"In my opinion, someone knows something," Sydney's father, George Loofe, told reporters following the news conference Thursday morning at the Hall of Justice in Lincoln. "Please do the right thing."
A rumor that Loofe's cellphone was found buried in a yard near where Trail and Boswell lived in Wilber is untrue, Bliemeister said.
He said local and federal law enforcement have been "working diligently" to find Loofe since her mother reported her missing Nov. 17, a day after she missed work at the north Lincoln Menards. Police have said she was last seen in Wilber the night of Nov. 15.
Police publicly identified Trail and Boswell as persons of interest in the case earlier this week. Since then, the two have posted at least three videos on Facebook denying any role in her disappearance.
In a 10-minute video posted overnight, a man identifying himself as Trail dismissed several theories that circulated on social media after Trail, 51, and Boswell, 23, were named by police.
"Not saying I'm a nice guy. I'm a crook, I'm a thief -- have been all my life. OK? But I'm not what you're trying to make me out to be," the man says.
He also said the pair had decided to turn themselves in.
A second, shorter video includes a woman identifying herself as Boswell. Both videos were quickly removed from Facebook, but have since been uploaded to YouTube.