Police have arrested one person in connection with the kidnapping by Savannah Guthrie mother, Nancy Guthrie.
The Pima County Sheriff’s Department, with the assistance of the FBI, has taken a person in for questioning in connection with the disappearance of the 84-year-old man, law enforcement confirmed on Tuesday, February 10.
“Today, deputies with the Pima County Sheriff’s Department arrested a subject during a traffic stop in south Tucson,” the sheriff said. Chris Nanos shared in a statement via X. “The subject is currently being questioned in connection with the Nancy Guthrie investigation. Additional information will be released as it becomes available.”
A police official briefed on the investigation said ABC News that police are also preparing to search a location related to the subject.
A former FBI special agent is sharing his assessment after investigators released new surveillance photos of a potential suspect in the ongoing disappearance of Nancy Guthrie. “A couple of things that stand out to me (are) that you don’t see a vehicle in the background,” Tracy Walder, also a former CIA officer, (…)
The news comes just hours after the FBI released black and white photos and surveillance images from Nancy’s house showing a masked individual with a gun apparently stored in his waistband apparently trying to break a camera on Nancy’s front door.
Us Weekly the FBI and the Pima County Sheriff’s Department have been contacted.
Director of the FBI Kash Patel He later addressed the footage in a statement via X, writing, “New footage in search of Nancy Guthrie. Over the past eight days, the FBI and the Pima County Sheriff’s Department have been working closely with our private sector partners to continue to recover any images or video footage from Nancy Guthrie’s home that may have been lost, damaged or inaccessible due to the recovery of various factors. residual data located in background systems.”
He continued: “Working with our partners, as of this morning law enforcement has uncovered this new previously inaccessible footage showing an armed individual who appears to have tampered with the camera at Nancy Guthrie’s front door on the morning of her disappearance.”
The FBI released the first video of a potential suspect in the disappearance of Today anchor Savannah Guthrie’s mother, Nancy Guthrie. “Additional images recovered from the same camera on Nancy Guthrie’s front door on the morning of her disappearance, including two videos of the individual,” FBI Director Kash Patel wrote via X on Tuesday, February (…)
Savannah, 54, shared the photos via her Instagram along with a caption that read: “We believe she is still alive. Bring her home. Anyone with information please contact 1-800-CALL-FBI (1-800-225-5324) or the Pima County Sheriff’s Department 520-351-4900.”
her husband, Michael Feldmantoo he spoke in the light of the published images. “Someone may recognize this person,” Feldman, 57, wrote via his own Instagram account. “Please help us. Take her home.”
Later on Tuesday, a report published by people revealed that officials from the Pima County Sheriff’s Office and the FBI were “seen searching the neighborhood” of Savannah’s sister, Annie Guthrieand “ask neighbors questions.” (Nancy is the mother of daughters Savannah and Annie, as well as their son Carmon Guthrie.)
A further report of TMZ claimed that TMZ had “first seen activity on the Bitcoin account listed in the first ransom note” sent to them. The report noted that the amount would not be disclosed “for various reasons,” but the activity allegedly took place around 4:00 PM PT.
Nancy was reported by a family member who called 911 on February 1st. Annie last saw her a day before, like confirmed for Us Weekly the next day, after Annie and her husband, Tommaso Cionidropped Nancy off at her home after a family dinner on January 31st.
A week after Savannah Guthrie’s mother, Nancy Guthrie, mysteriously disappeared, law enforcement returned to one of her children’s homes to conduct an overnight search. On Saturday, February 7, around 10:30 p.m., police were seen going in and out of the Arizona residence of Annie Guthrie and her husband Tomasso Cioni for several hours, (…)
In the days following Nancy’s disappearance, the person or persons who allegedly took Nancy sent one of multiple ransom notes to various media outlets, including TMZ. The ransom note called for the Guthrie family to pay millions of dollars in Bitcoin into an account.
Tucson ABC affiliate KGUN9 was one of the media outlets, reporting Sunday, Feb. 8, that the note “demanded the Guthries pay them $6 million.”