Pima County officials are asking the public to help find Coral Michelle Smith, a 40-year-old woman wanted in a kidnapping and aggravated assault case tied to a May 29 incident at River Road and La Cholla Boulevard in Tucson.
The sheriff’s department issued the alert as investigators sought someone they said should be treated as a person to be on the lookout for, and they released a detailed description: Smith is 5 feet 6 inches tall, weighs 136 pounds and has blond hair, blue eyes and tattoos including a smiley face and heart on her right ankle, a rose with flames on her right foot, and the words “love, life, family” on her left leg.
Authorities did not give additional details about what happened in the incident. They also said Smith has an extensive criminal history in Pima County, where court records show she has previously been accused of kidnapping, assault, robbery and disorderly conduct and has served four different stints in prison.
Her record includes guilty findings for robbery in 2011, disorderly conduct and attempted vehicle theft in 2014, robbery in 2019, criminal trespass in 2021, attempted vehicle theft in 2022 and aggravated assault with physical injury in 2023. Court records also show the 2019 case involved kidnapping and drug charges tied to a victim listed as under 15 years old, though those charges were later dismissed.
The alert came while the sheriff’s department was also investigating the suspected abduction of Nancy Guthrie, and officials said the Smith search was separate from that case. Guthrie vanished from her home in the early hours of Feb. 1, and the alert said Smith was wanted just a few miles away from Guthrie’s Arizona home in the Catalina Foothills, about seven miles from the residence, though authorities did not indicate any connection between Smith and Guthrie.
Smith has also used the aliases Corral Albright, Coral Albright-Smith and Under The Sea Smith. The case number associated with the alert was 260529272, and officials urged anyone with information to call 911 or 88-CRIME. For a department already fielding attention in the Guthrie investigation, the unanswered question is now the most basic one: where Smith is and whether the public tip line can find her before the search grows colder.
