A MAN who was questioned in connection to the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie has broken his silence.
Investigators have also carried out a search warrant at a property in Rio Rico, Arizona.
Savannah Guthrie’s mother has been missing for over a week as cops detain someone for questioning
Officials have blocked off the road where a home is being searched
No details have been released about the man arrested by police
A man has been detained but it is not known if it is the man caught on camera
Now the man who says he was detained by Pima County Sheriff’s deputies for “kidnapping” Nancy Guthrie spoke to ABC15 following his release.
In the interview, the man, who identified himself as “Carlos,” says he was held at the scene of the initial traffic stop for hours.
“They didn’t even tell me what’s going on until the detectives got here… They told me I was being detained for kidnapping, and I asked them, “Kidnapping of who?”” he said.
The man arrested by police was detained during a traffic stop in Rio Rico after deputies had been trailing him, police sources told The Post.
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He has since been released at around 1am on Wednesday after police performed the court-ordered search of the property where he had been staying, according to the Daily Mail.
Officials also told CNN the search of the property has been completed and federal authorities are looking at more than one ‘person of interest’ as authorities received a deluge of tips following the release of a doorbell camera footage.
The FBI released the haunting footage showing an alleged “armed intruder” tampering with the doorbell to Guthrie’s home the night she was kidnapped.
A source confirmed to Fox News that the FBI’s elite Hostage Rescue Team have arrived in Tucson to help close the net around Nancy’s alleged abductors.
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The sheriff’s office had confirmed that the individual was being questioned about Nancy’s disappearance and authorities searched his home in Rio Rico, a tiny border community roughly 60 miles south of Tucson.
It is being reported by TMZ that the person arrested was not a member of the Guthrie family.
A woman who lives in the Rio Rico home searched by authorities in connection with the kidnapping of Nancy Guthrie said it was her son-in-law who was detained acccording to reports from the New York Post.
The woman, who has not been named, told ABC15’s Lillian Donahue that investigators “keep going in and out of my house, taking pictures, and I don’t know why,” according to the clip posted on X.
SUBSTANTIAL PROGRESS
FBI Director Kash Patel confirmed to Fox News that federal investigators were probing “persons of interest” just hours before the arrest was made.
“Without polluting the investigation, I will say we have made substantial progress in these last 36-48 hours, thanks to the technical capabilities of the FBI and our partnerships and I do believe we are looking at people who, as we say, are persons of interest,” Patel said.
He added that the first priority was to find Nancy, adding that the bureau’s outreach to the private sector has shown “there might be persons of interest in and around the area related to this event.”
“The agency’s first priority was finding Nancy and right behind that is to find any others involved in this kidnapping case to make sure they’re brought to justice,” he said.
The news of the arrest came just hours after it was revealed how surveillance had captured a masked and armed intruder tampering with a camera outside Nancy Guthrie’s home the night she was kidnapped.
The videos appears to show the individual ripping plants from the property and using it to block the camera just hours before the 84-year-old mother was taken from her bed.
“They showed me a video to see if it was him, to see … if I recognize the things he was wearing, he doesn’t have any of that. He doesn’t have anything that comes in the video,” the unnamed woman who claimed her son-in-law was the one arrested continued telling The New York Post.
When asked if the person in the footage looked like her son-in-law, the resident replied, “No, it doesn’t look like him. No, not at all.”
She added that her son-in-law hasn’t been “in trouble” since he was underage.
The individual was cloaked in a ski mask and dressed in a jacket and pants, along with black gloves and a backpack.
In the first video shared by authorities, the subject was seen walking slowly toward the front door, with a hunched-over back, covering the camera while appearing to look around.
The individual then stepped back, searched the ground, stepped off the front porch, and pulled a plant from the lawn.
In a second clip, the plant appears to be shoved in front of the camera, obscuring the view as the individual holds what appears to be a flashlight inside their mouth.
Nancy has been missing since February 1, and investigators said they have been hard at work trying to recover footage from her home that was lost, corrupted, or inaccessible due to devices being removed.
They said this video was “recovered from residual data located in backend systems.”
In a statement shared along with the footage, the Pima County Sheriff’s and the FBI begged for tip and asked anyone with information to contact 1-800-CALL-FBI or visit http://tips.fbi.gov.
Shortly after the photos were released, Savannah reshared them on her Instagram and gave a brief statement.
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“We believe she is still alive. Bring her home,” she wrote, adding information on how to contact the FBI.
