\n\t\t\t\t\t\tA person was detained for questioning Tuesday in the kidnapping of Nancy Guthrie, hours after the FBI released surveillance videos of a masked person wearing a handgun holster outside Guthrie\u2019s front door the night she vanished from her Arizona home.Deputies detained the person during a traffic stop south of Tucson, according to the Pima County Sheriff\u2019s Department.”Earlier today, Pima County Sheriff’s Department deputies detained a subject during a traffic stop south of Tucson,” Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos said in a statement released on X. “The subject is currently being questioned in connection to the Nancy Guthrie investigation.”The department and the FBI were conducting a court-authorized search Tuesday night at a location in Rio Rico, about an hour\u2019s drive south of Tucson, the department said in a statement. It was expected to take several hours.The community of Rio Rico \u2014 population 20,000 \u2014 is roughly an hour’s drive from Guthrie’s home and about 15 miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border.Related video above: Earlier Friday, the FBI released surveillance video of a masked individual on Nancy Guthrie’s porch the night of her disappearance. It’s unclear if the person who was detained for questioning is the person seen in the video footage.The sheriff’s department did not immediately provide details about the person or the location. The FBI referred questions to the sheriff’s office.It’s unclear if the person who was detained is the person seen in video footage released by the FBI.CNN reports that a law enforcement source familiar with the investigation made a point to stress that the person who was being questioned hadn’t been charged as of late Tuesday night.Guthrie disappeared on Feb. 1, and since then, the case has gripped the nation. Until Tuesday, it seemed authorities were making little headway in determining what happened to the 84-year-old mother of \u201cToday\u201d show host Savannah Guthrie or finding who was responsible.Savannah Guthrie and her two siblings have released a series of video statements pleading for the return of their mother and indicating a willingness to pay a ransom. Authorities have described Nancy Guthrie as mentally sound but with limited mobility. She takes several medications and there was concern from the start that she could die without them, Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos has said repeatedly.The videos released earlier Tuesday show a person wearing a ski mask and a backpack. At one point, they tilt their head down and away from a doorbell camera while approaching Guthrie’s front door. The footage also shows the person holding a flashlight in their mouth and trying to cover the camera with a gloved hand and part of a plant ripped from the yard.The videos \u2014 less than a combined minute in length \u2014 gave investigators and the public their first glimpse of who was outside Guthrie’s home in the foothills outside Tucson. But the images did not show what happened to her or help determine whether she is still alive.FBI Director Kash Patel said the \u201carmed individual\u201d appeared to “have tampered with the camera.” It was not entirely clear whether there was a gun in the holster.The videos were pulled from data on “back-end systems\u201d after investigators spent days trying to find lost, corrupted or inaccessible images, Patel said.\u201cThis will get the phone ringing for lots of potential leads,\u201d said former FBI agent Katherine Schweit. \u201cEven when you have a person who appears to be completely covered, they\u2019re really not. You can see their girth, the shape of their face, potentially their eyes or mouth.\u201dTuesday afternoon, authorities were back near Guthrie\u2019s neighborhood, using vehicles to block her driveway. A few miles away, law enforcement was going door-to-door in the area where daughter Annie Guthrie lives, talking with neighbors as well as walking through a drainage area and examining the inside of a culvert with a flashlight.Investigators have said for more than a week that they believe Nancy Guthrie was taken against her will. She was last seen at home Jan. 31 and reported missing the next day. DNA tests showed blood on her porch was hers, authorities said.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
A person was detained for questioning Tuesday in the kidnapping of Nancy Guthrie, hours after the FBI released surveillance videos of a masked person wearing a handgun holster outside Guthrie\u2019s front door the night she vanished from her Arizona home.<\/p>\n
Deputies detained the person during a traffic stop south of Tucson, according to the Pima County Sheriff\u2019s Department.<\/p>\n