A man has reportedly been arrested outside of Nancy Guthrie‘s Arizona home on suspicion of a DUI—after he was allegedly seen driving past the property “50 to 100 times” while looking at a photo of the missing 84-year-old on his phone.
The man was seen in a blue vehicle making his way past the $1 million dwelling multiple times on the evening on Feb. 26, according to NewsNation correspondent Brian Entin, who shared footage of the moment the driver was stopped and questioned by authorities.
“It’s probably nothing but, like, it is weird. There’s some just like some creepy people that come by,” Entin said in his video.
He added: “There are some weird people that show up out here. There’s this guy in this car right here who literally drove by like 50 to 100 times, very slowly. It was just weird. He would go right by the memorial [outside of Nancy’s home] and he just kept stopping, literally 50 to 100 times tonight.”
Entin further alleged that a member of the media “tried to talk to him and saw that he had a picture of Nancy Guthrie on his phone,” which he was reportedly looking at as he drove by.
According to the NewsNation correspondent, the man was later taken into custody after failing a roadside sobriety test.
However, there is currently no indication that the person has any connection to Nancy’s disappearance on Feb. 1—nor has he been publicly identified by the authorities.
Anyone with any information about Nancy Guthrie’s case should call 1-800-CALL-FBI, 520-351-4900, 88-CRIME, or visit https://tips.fbi.gov/.
The Pima County Sheriff’s Department has yet to comment on the arrest, having previously stated via a spokesperson that it would no longer be issuing daily updates on Nancy’s case.
The arrest comes one day after Fox News claimed that one of Nancy’s neighbors had obtained footage from their Ring security camera, which shows around a dozen vehicles driving down a road near to the missing mother of three’s home on the night of her abduction.
According to the outlet, the vehicles were caught on camera between the hours of 12 a.m. and 6 a.m. on Feb. 1, the same day that a masked and armed intruder was caught on camera approaching Nancy’s front door.
Elias and Danielle Stratigouleas told Fox News that authorities had not asked them for the camera footage, noting that they live around half a mile outside of the two-mile zone that was being canvassed by the FBI and the Pima County Sheriff’s Department.
However, they have since notified authorities about the footage.
Hours earlier, it was revealed that the FBI reportedly made the decision to pull almost all of the agents assigned to Nancy’s case out of Tucson and return them to the agency’s Phoenix headquarters—amid rumors that her daughter, “Today” host Savannah Guthrie, is preparing to leave Arizona and fly home to New York.
As the search for Nancy nears the end of its fourth week, law enforcement sources told ABC News that the majority of agents who were sent to work on the ground near the 84-year-old’s home will now head back to the closest FBI headquarters.
While some agents will remain on the ground, the rest will continue their work on the case from the Phoenix office and it has been made clear that this development should not be viewed as a sign that the investigation is over or that authorities are any less hopeful about finding Nancy.
“The FBI will keep agents in Tucson and continue to partner with the Pima County Sheriff’s Department, but many agents are returning to Phoenix to work the case from there,” the outlet reported.
The update came as the latest indication that the search for the missing mother of three is being scaled back, with the Daily Mail later claiming that Savannah, 54, is preparing to leave Arizona and return to her home in New York, where she lives with her husband, Michael Feldman, and their two young children.
“She can’t stay in Arizona forever,” the insider said. “Her kids and her life are in New York City. It’s what her mom would want her to do. Nancy was Savannah’s biggest cheerleader.”
Savannah has been absent from the “Today” show since the news of her mother’s disappearance was revealed, having traveled immediately to Arizona soon after it was revealed that Nancy was missing. Her former costar, Hoda Kotb, has been filling in for her since Feb. 2.
It has been reported that the on-air host has been staying at a rental property in the area with her sister, Annie, and her brother, Cameron.
Hours earlier, FBI agents were seen arriving at Nancy’s home in what is understood to have been a “final sweep” of the property before it is handed back to the family of the missing 84-year-old.
Images and video taken outside of the $1 million Tucson-area dwelling in the afternoon of Feb. 25—nearly one month after Nancy is thought to have been abducted from her home—show multiple officials arriving in a convoy of vehicles.
According to NBC News, officials spent two hours walking through the dwelling and searching in the area directly outside the property, with sources revealing that the sweep was “related to efforts to turn the home back over to the Guthrie family.”
Law enforcement officials have since confirmed that they no longer see a reason to keep the home sealed as a crime scene or prevent Nancy’s relatives from entering the abode.
The authorities seen at the home were not pictured with any equipment, however a truck from the Pima County Sheriff’s Department was seen parked directly outside the entryway to the dwelling.
On Feb. 24, Savannah shared her first video update with the public in more than a week, posting an emotional clip in which she revealed her family is offering a $1 million reward to anyone who provides information that leads to Nancy’s return.
The mother of two acknowledged that her mother may have died, but said that the family just wants to know where she is—and to bring her home.
“We still believe in a miracle. We still believe that she can come home,” she said. “We also know she may be lost. She may already be gone. She may have already gone home to the Lord that she loves and is dancing in heaven with her mom and her dad and with her beloved brother.
“But we need to know where she is. We need her to come home. For that reason we are offering a family reward of $1 million for any information that leads to her recovery.”
The Guthrie family’s reward will be added to the $100,000 already offered by the FBI, as well as an additional $100,000 that was given by an anonymous donor.
“So please, if you hear this message, if you’ve been waiting and you haven’t been sure, let this be your sign to please come forward, tell what you know and help us bring our beloved mom home so that we can either celebrate a glorious, miraculous homecoming, or celebrate the beautiful, brave, courageous, and noble life that she has lived,” Savannah continued.
“Someone knows how to find our mom and bring her home,” the TV host added in her caption.
Within 12 hours of that post going live, the FBI received 750 calls to its tip line, NBC News reports, adding to the tens of thousands of tips that have been sent since the start of the month.
What is the full timeline of Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance?
Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos noted during a media briefing on Feb. 5 that, while times are approximate, his team has pieced together several pieces of evidence that indicate Nancy’s movements—and the timeline of her apparent abduction.
Nancy, 84, was reported missing at around 12 p.m. local time on Feb. 1, around 14 hours after she was dropped off at the property following a family dinner. When she failed to turn up at her usual church gathering on Sunday, her friends alerted her family, who found her home was empty.
SATURDAY, JAN. 31
5:32 p.m. Nancy travels to Annie’s house in an Uber for “dinner and playing games with the family.”
9:48 p.m. A garage door at Nancy’s house opens when she was dropped off at the property by her daughter.
9:50 p.m. The garage door closes, indicating that Nancy was inside the home.
SUNDAY, FEB. 1
1:47 a.m. Nancy’s doorbell security camera is disconnected.
2:12 a.m. Movement is detected on a security camera at the home. No footage of this is currently available.
2:28 a.m. Nancy’s pacemaker app indicates that the device has been disconnected from her phone.
11:00 a.m. Nancy fails to arrive at the home of a friend, where she had been due to watch a church service livestream.
11:56 a.m. Nancy’s family travels to her home to check on her and finds the property empty.
12:03 p.m. The family calls 911 to report Nancy missing.
12:14 p.m. Police officers arrive at Nancy’s home.
