A deliveryman told a local news station that he was detained in connection with Guthrie’s case and was released several hours later.
The Pima County Sheriff’s Department said on Feb. 10 that a person believed to be connected to Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance has been detained for questioning.
The sheriff’s department said in a statement posted on X that “deputies detained a subject during a traffic stop” south of Tucson, Arizona.
Police did not say how the person is linked to the Guthrie case or disclose their identity.
Local news station ABC15 interviewed a man identified as Carlos, who said he was detained during a traffic stop in connection with Guthrie’s case before being released several hours later. The man said he delivers packages and might have delivered one to Guthrie’s address.
“They told me I was being detained for kidnapping. And I asked him, ‘kidnapping of who?’ And they told me this lady, I don’t know her name,” he said. “I might have delivered a package to her house, but I never kidnapped anybody.”
The Pima County Sheriff’s Department has not confirmed whether the person authorities detained during a traffic stop had been released.
Guthrie, 84, was last seen on the evening of Jan. 31 at her home near East Skyline Drive and North Campbell Avenue in Catalina Foothills, Arizona—a Tucson suburb—and investigators believe she may have been abducted.
The FBI on Feb. 10 released new images and videos showing a masked person tampering a door camera outside of Guthrie’s home.
The footage, labeled as from a Nest camera, shows a person approaching the front door of Guthrie’s residence and moving their hand around close to the camera.
The FBI said the video had been inaccessible and was recovered from “residual data located in backend systems.”
“Over the last eight days, the FBI and 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, corrupted, or inaccessible due to a variety of factors—including the removal of recording devices,” the FBI said on X.
Savannah Guthrie, daughter of Nancy Guthrie and host of NBC’s “Today” show, shared pictures from the video on social media, asking anyone who recognizes the person to reach out.
Zachary Stieber contributed to this report.
