A arrested man in relation to the disappearance of Savannah Guthriethe mother, Nancy Guthriehe maintained his innocence after being questioned and later released by the police.
The individual, who identified himself only as Carlos a ABC15 Arizona‘s Ford Hatchettsaid his car was pulled over in Rio Rico, Arizona, south of Tucson, on Tuesday, February 10, and told he was “under arrest for kidnapping.”
“I asked, ‘Whose kidnapping?’ and I was told that this lady… I don’t know her name,” he said, before confirming Nancy’s name with Hatchett’s help.
Carlos said, “I told (the officers), ‘I work in Tucson for GLS. I could have delivered a package to your house, but I never kidnapped anyone.'”
Questions remain after Savannah Guthrie’s mother, Today show host Nancy Guthrie, went missing. The Pima County Sheriff’s Department confirmed the news on February 1, sharing a missing person report via X. Nancy was described as a “vulnerable adult” who was last seen “at her residence” in the Catalina Foothills area of Arizona in the evening (…)
The man said officials told him he was “free to go” after answering his questions. He denied knowledge of Nancy’s February 1 disappearance from her home outside Tucson.
Us Weekly The Pima County Sheriff’s Department and the FBI have been contacted for comment.
earlier Tuesday, Pima County police said we“Today, deputies with the Pima County Sheriff’s Department arrested a subject during a traffic stop in south Tucson. The subject is currently being questioned in connection with the Nancy Guthrie investigation. Additional information will be released as it becomes available.”
The sheriff’s department also confirmed it was conducting a “court-authorized search” of a house in Rio Rico.
The family of Savannah Guthrie faced an unimaginable situation when they learned that their matriarch, Nancy Guthrie, 84, was reported missing in Arizona in February 2026. As the police have become involved in the investigation and the case has unraveled, many people are curious about the timeline of events that happened before and after Nancy’s disappearance. “To (…)
“The Pima County Sheriff’s Department, assisted by the FBI’s Evidence Response Team, is conducting a court-authorized search of a location in Rio Rico, AZ, related to the Nancy Guthrie investigation,” the department said. we. “This operation is expected to take several hours. No further details are available at this time.”
A woman who identified herself as Josephine he said in several press interviews outside his Rio Rico home Tuesday night that it was his property that was being searched and that his son-in-law (whom he called Carlos) had been arrested.
Josephine he told NewsNation’s Brian Entin that his son-in-law, daughter and grandchildren were stopped by police while making deliveries for DoorDash.
The woman said police took electronic devices from the home. “They took my phone, my husband’s phone, my daughter’s phone, my grandchildren’s phone and my son-in-law’s,” she said.
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 (…)
Josefina denied knowing about Nancy’s disappearance without briefly seeing the news on Facebook.
Entin showed Josefina black and white photos released by the FBI on Tuesday of a potential suspect wearing a ski mask outside Nancy’s Catalina Foothills home the night of her disappearance. The woman denied any visible resemblance between the individual and her son-in-law.
“He doesn’t look like that,” she said, referring to her son-in-law, whom she described as a “good guy” with no criminal or violent history.
Nancy, 84, was last seen on January 31. She was reported missing the next day.
Tuesday, FBI LiveMr. Kash Patel released photographs and surveillance footage shot from a Nest camera outside Nancy’s house showing a potential suspect dressed in a ski mask and in possession of what appeared to be a handgun holstered in his waistband.
“New images in search of Nancy Guthrie,” Patel shared in an X post. “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 various factors, including the removal of recording devices. The video was recovered from residual data located on systems later”.
“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 Nancy Guthrie’s front door camera on the morning of her disappearance. Anyone with information is asked to contact 1-800-CALL-FBI or visit http://tips.fbi.gov.”