Bombshell new pictures and video showing Nancy Guthrie’s alleged kidnapper outside her house were released by authorities on Tuesday.
The series of stills and two videos show an armed individual wearing a ski mask, gloves, a zipped jacket, and a backpack outside the front door of the 84-year-old woman’s Tucson, Arizona, home.
In a social media post, FBI Director Kash Patel shares a few pictures of the alleged kidnapper for the first time. Meanwhile, a former FBI agent told The Post that the bizarre way Nancy Guthrie’s alleged abductor carried his gun, along with the amateurish way he tried to cover up the Nest camera, all point to an inexperienced thug.
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It marks the most significant breakthrough in the alleged abduction of “Today” host Savannah Guthrie’s mom since she disappeared from her home in the early morning hours of Feb. 1.
Up until this point, no suspects have been identified, and neither law enforcement nor the FBI had offered any major insight into who might have snatched her from her home after she was dropped off by her son-in-law, Tommaso Cioni, following a dinner with him and her daughter, Annie.
Director Patel also urged anyone with information to call 1-800-CALL-FBI or visit tips.fbi.gov.
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The man detained by law enforcement Tuesday night in the search for Nancy Guthrie’s kidnapper has been released, ABC15 reported.
The man, only identified as Carlos, said he was riding in his car with his wife when they noticed police were tailing them.
They pulled over and Carlos stepped out of the car and he was brought in for questioning, he told the outlet.
“I told them, I work in Tucson for GLS, I might have delivered a package to her house but I never kidnapped anybody,” he said. “They hold me from 4:00 p.m. till now.”
The man who was detained Tuesday in the Nancy Guthrie abduction case was released from custody.
A woman who lives in the Rio Rico home being searched by authorities in connection with the kidnapping of Nancy Guthrie said her son-in-law was detained at a traffic stop earlier today.
The seemingly confused woman, who was not identified by name, 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.
“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,” she said of surveillance footage she was shown from outside the missing 84-year-old’s home.
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 Pima County Sheriff’s Department, with assistance from the FBI’s Evidence Response team, are searching a Rio Rico, Ariz. home where the person of interest in Nancy Guthrie’s kidnapping lives, according to law enforcement sources.
Deputies were conducting a “court-authorized” search of the home Tuesday night related to the investigation into Guthrie’s abduction from her Tucson home, the sheriff’s office said.
Sources told The Post that the home is the address of the man who was taken in for questioning during a traffic stop in the tiny border community, just 16 miles north of Mexico and 60 miles south of Tucson.
Several Santa Cruz Sheriff’s Department vehicles were also seen swarming the residence, Fox News Digital reporter Michael Ruiz posted on X.
The Pima County Sheriff’s Department issued a statement via X late Tuesday night after a person of interest was detained during a traffic stop in connection with Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance:
RIO RICO, Arizona — The man detained of questioning in the abduction of Nancy Guthrie was headed toward the US-Mexico border when he was stopped by Pima County sheriff’s deputies with the help of the FBI, law enforcement sources said.
Cops stopped the man and detained him for questioning, sources said.
He was being pursued when cops stopped his vehicles in this tiny border community, which is 60 miles south of Nancy Guthrie’s home and just nine miles from the border.
FBI agents went door to door in Nancy Guthrie’s neighborhood.California Post
Sources did not know if he was trying to flee to Mexico.
His identity has not been revealed, nor if they are a suspect in the abduction, although the person does not seem to be a member of the Guthrie family, according to TMZ.
The arrest comes hours after law enforcement released footage of a masked person disabling a doorbell camera of the Guthrie home in the early morning hours of Sunday, Feb. 1 — within the window police say Nancy was taken.
NBC broke into its coverage of the 2026 Milan Cortina Olympics to announce that a person of interest had been detained for questioning in the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie, mother of “Today” host Savannah Guthrie which is the network’s flagship morning program.
The detention comes only hours after the FBI released video of an armed suspect wearing a ski mask at the octogenarian’s front door.
The network spent over $10B securing broadcast rights to Olympic events through 2036.
An individual has been detained for questioning in connection with the abduction of Nancy Guthrie, sources told The Post.
The person who was detained for questioning for the abduction of Nancy Guthrie has yet to be identified.savannahguthrie/Instagram
The person, who has not yet been identified, was detained late Tuesday in a location south of Tucson, sources added.
The development follows the release of several images of a masked kidnapper at the door of the home of the 84-year-old mother of “Today” show host Savannah Guthrie.
The bitcoin account associated with Nancy Guthrie’s expired ransom began showing activity Tuesday evening.
About $152 worth of bitcoin appeared in the account’s publicly viewable logs — with the funds arriving after a single transaction was made.
That cash value came from .0022 bitcoin deposited in the account.
It remains unclear where the money came from. Anybody who obtained a copy of the ransom note would have been able to wire funds to it.
The police presence on Annie Guthrie’s street has been steadily increasing since search and rescue units arrived Tuesday afternoon.
Two armored SWAT vehicles from the Pima County Sheriff’s Department arrived on the street just after 6 p.m., while more search and rescue trucks were parked nearby, Fox News’ Michael Ruiz reported.
FBI Agents are going door to door in Annie Guthrie’s neighborhood.California Post
Additional FBI agents also swarmed the area, with at least 10 seen fanning throughout the neighborhood.
No tactical gear was seen arriving with the officers, Ruiz reported.
The FBI finally released the first images of Nancy Guthrie’s suspected abductor 10 days after she vanished from her Arizona home — a delay caused by two major obstacles — her security camera was missing and the 84-year-old grandmother didn’t subscribe to the camera’s back-up storage plan.
The long-awaited release of the horrifying break-in footage recorded by the missing Nest camera shows just what parent company Google is capable of, one expert said.
FBI Director Kash Patel released surveillance images Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2026, of a suspect wanted in connection with the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie from Tucson, Ariz., home.FBI
Guthrie wasn’t paying for a Google Home subscription which would have stored her Nest feed, even if the physical camera was removed. It costs $10 a month — or $100 a year — for the base service that saves video triggered by movements or “events” for 30 days.
“It gives us some insight to what Google is capable of,” former prosecutor and current criminal defense lawyer John W. Day told The Post.
Two SWAT vehicles raced out of the parking lot at the Pima County Sheriff’s Office on Tuesday afternoon.
The sudden movement was captured by Fox News cameras.
It is unclear whether the vehicles were involved in the investigation into Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance.
A Domino’s Pizza delivery guy was seen walking past security, police and the press to try to drop off a pie to Nancy Guthrie’s front door in Tucson, Arizona, on Tuesday.
The pizza was reportedly intended for independent reporter Jonathan Lee Riches, who was in front of Guthrie’s home among the press. A viewer supposedly ordered it for Riches, according to Mediaite.
This bizarre moment was caught on camera around the same time FBI Director Kash Patel shared new, never-before-seen footage from Guthrie’s home security camera of the alleged kidnapper.
The armed suspect was seen in dark clothing and wearing a backpack and ski mask — approaching the door
Authorities are being flooded with calls after the FBI released eerie footage of a masked person tampering with Nancy Guthrie’s home-security camera the morning she vanished, CNN said.
The local Pima County Sheriff’s Department in Arizona told the outlet that tipsters with potential information in the sensational baffling case have been calling in droves.
FBI Director Kash Patel released surveillance images Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2026, of a suspect wanted in connection with the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie from Tucson, Ariz., home.FBI
Investigators released the chilling black-and-white surveillance footage earlier Tuesday.
The suspect appeared to be carrying a small flashlight in their mouth as they skulked around the home’s patio in a full mask and backpack while trying to quickly cover up the camera with shrubbery outside the home.
Search and rescue units are now conducting a door-to-door canvas near Annie Guthrie’s home, according to NewsNation.
Annie and her husband, Tommaso Cioni, had Nancy over to their home the evening before she vanished, and Cioni drove Nancy home after their evening together. Law enforcement crews are also searching the brush in the neighborhood.
Nancy Guthrie’s suspected kidnapper appeared to have dark facial hair, according to still from recently released security footage.
The footage recovered from Nancy’s home security system also clearly showed the shape of the suspected attacker’s eyes, and part of their eyebrows.
Nancy Guthrie’s suspected kidnapper appeared to have dark facial hair.FBI
The footage recovered from Nancy’s home security system also clearly showed the shape of the suspected attacker’s eyes, and part of their eyebrows.FBI
At several points during the chilling clips, the suspect stared straight into the camera lens as they were disassembling it.
The clip gave a tantalizingly close look at the 84-year-old’s suspected kidnapper — but their identity remained shrouded in mystery as the search for Nancy dragged through its 10th day.
The bizarre way Nancy Guthrie’s alleged abductor carried his gun, along with the amateurish way he tried to cover up the Nest camera, all point to an inexperienced thug, a former FBI agent has claimed.
With the search for “Today” show host Savannah Guthrie’s 84-year-old mother entering its 10th day, the chilling pictures and videos released Thursday are first major public breakthrough in the case.
And they offer offering potential clues about Nancy’s attacker.
Savannah Guthrie and her family do not recognize the individual seen masked and armed while breaking into their mother’s house in frightening footage newly released by the FBI, according to reports.
Law enforcement also did not recognize the individual, NBC News reported.
Savannah Guthrie and her family do not recognize the individual seen masked and armed while breaking into their mother’s house.FBI
The FBI to released the stills and video in hopes that somebody from the public might recognize the person — or even something about their clothing or movements — and bring a breakthrough in the case, the outlet reported.
FBI Director Kash Patel said the security footage was recovered Tuesday morning — 10 days after Nancy was last seen on Jan. 31.
