TUCSON, Ari. (TNND) — The Pima County Sheriff’s Department has detained an individual for questioning in connection with the case of Nancy Guthrie with assistance from the FBI. The individual was allegedly detained in a location in the south of Tucson, and law enforcement said it is prepared to search a location associated with the detained individual.
The new development comes after the first few images of a masked man were released, showing a masked man approaching Nancy Guthrie’s front door.
As of now, there is no indication that the detained individual is also the figure seen in the new video footage.
FBI Director Kash Patel released images of an “armed individual” in connection with Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance. The images released showed a person wearing a mask, gloves, a backpack and armed with a holstered handgun.
“[L]aw enforcement has uncovered these previously inaccessible new images showing an armed individual appearing to have tampered with the camera at Nancy Guthrie’s front door the morning of her disappearance,” Patel said in his post.
According to ABC News, the Guthrie family saw these images before they were released to the public.
The Guthrie family was shown the images before their public release, law enforcement sources told ABC News.
Nancy Guthrie has been missing from her home since Feb. 1, over the weekend, the Guthrie family received a demand for a bitcoin ransom by a Monday deadline from people claiming to be Guthrie’s abductors.
“We received your message and we understand,” Today Show’s host Savannah Guthrie said in an Instagram video over the weekend. “We beg you now to return our mother to us so we can celebrate with her. This is the only way we will have peace. This is very valuable to us, and we will pay.”
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After the ransom deadline passed Monday evening, the FBI said its agents continued to work on the case and that more agents were being sent to Arizona to assist in the investigation.
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