According to reports, the husband of missing Massachusetts mother Ana Walshe was detained.
On New Year’s Day early in the morning, 39-year-old Ana was last seen at her Cohasset home.
According to CBS News, the Norfolk District Attorney’s Office made the 46-year-old Brian Walshe’s arrest public on Sunday.
According to reports, Brian was detained for misrepresenting the inquiry.
According to CBS, he is scheduled to show up in Quincy District Court on Monday.
“Cohasset and Massachusetts State Police continue to investigate the disappearance of Ana Walshe, 39, of Cohasset,” Norfolk District Attorney Michael Morrissey said in a press release.
“During the course of that investigation, police developed probable cause to believe that her husband Brian Walshe had committed the crime of misleading police investigators.”
The press release did not include an update on the investigation into Ana’s disappearance.
The ground search was put on hold on January 7 and won’t restart unless fresh information is discovered, according to a tweet from local and state police.
After barely two days, the ground search for Ana was called off.
Police went back to the missing woman’s house on Sunday, though, as the inquiry is ongoing.
After spending time in D.C. looking for potential evidence, investigators left for Massachusetts on Sunday, CBS reports.
According to CBS, the Norfolk District Attorney’s office is currently in charge of the search and investigation.
Wooded areas close to the Walshes’ house were scoured on Saturday before the ground search was put on hold.
According to reports, the search also involved draining the couple’s pool.
Officers searched through the rubble at the bottom of the empty pool for any clues as to Ana’s whereabouts.
In what Police Chief William Quigley described as a “very unusual coincidence,” the searches took place the day after a fire started at Ana’s former residence.
Later it was determined that the fire, which started in the attic, was unintentional and connected to faulty piping surrounding a gas fireplace.
The family who was living there at the time all made it out safely.
Ana has left “no technological footprint” from the day of her disappearance, according to Quigley, who stated this at a news conference on Friday.
An Ana’s relative reportedly seen the woman leave her Cohasset home at around 4am to board a ride-sharing vehicle bound for the Boston airport, where she was scheduled to catch a flight to Washington, D.C., for business.
According to Quigley, Brian was dozing off when Ana left their house.
Police observed that Ana did not get on an aircraft on January 1 but have not been able to corroborate that she did.
On January 4, Brian reportedly reported her missing after being unable to get in touch with her.
