Missing University of Alabama student James Gracey’s phone was found when Spanish police busted someone, his family said in an alarming update.

Gracey, 20, was last seen around 3 a.m. Tuesday on security footage leaving a popular Barcelona nightclub with an unidentified person after a night out with his fraternity brothers.

Police recovered his phone during the arrest of another individual, Noreen Heron, a family spokesperson, told Fox News, without making clear if the bust was directly related to the spring breaker’s disappearance.

“We don’t know whether [the phone] was lost, stolen, whatever,” the 20-year-old’s aunt Beth O’Reilly told NewsNation.

Law enforcement sources in Barcelona declined to reveal any details to Fox News on the suspect arrested in possession of Gracey’s phone or if the arrest was directly tied to the ongoing hunt.

However, investigators are looking through the phone’s location history to trace Gracey’s movements after he left the nightclub.

Gracey, from West Elmhurst, Ill., vanished hours after he flew into Barcelona from Amsterdam, the Netherlands, on Monday, where he had spent the previous weekend.

He was separated from his friends after going out to the hip club Shôko — but never made it back to his Airbnb in Ronda de Sant Pere some two miles away.

Foul play is suspected in Gracey’s disappearance after security footage revealed him leaving the club with a stranger.

“We’re not going to give up. We’re going to keep looking for him, and we’re waiting for him to come to us safe.”