No Arrests After Investigators Search Second Home In Nancy Guthrie Kidnapping Case, Sheriff Says

Authorities served a hunt warrant astatine a location successful Tucson connected Friday nighttime successful relationship pinch nan disappearance of Nancy Guthrie, who investigators opportunity was kidnapped from her adjacent location 13 days ago, but made nary arrests.

Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos told 13 News successful Tucson nan cognition was “nothing much than a lead tracked down that led to a hunt warrant.” Nanos besides told Fox News nary arrests were made.

A SWAT squad converged connected a location astir 2 miles from Guthrie’s Arizona residence and removed 2 group from inside, rule enforcement sources told The Times.

A man and a female complied pinch orders to exit nan home, News Nation reported.

Around midnight, national agents and sheriff investigators focused their attraction connected a metallic Range Rover SUV parked extracurricular a edifice astir 2 miles distant from nan location that was being searched. After taking photographs of nan vehicle, agents opened nan trunk of nan SUV utilizing a tarp to artifact onlookers position wrong nan vehicle, video shows.

It is not clear what, if anything, was found.

Investigators sewage their first awesome break successful nan lawsuit Tuesday pinch nan merchandise of footage showing an equipped man wearing a balaclava, gloves and a backpack approaching nan beforehand doorway of Guthrie’s location and tampering pinch a Nest camera astatine 1:47 a.m. nan nighttime she was abducted.

“Today” big Savannah Guthrie pinch her mother, Nancy, successful 2023.

(Nathan Congleton / NBC via Getty Images)

Later Tuesday, authorities detained a man astatine a postulation extremity successful Rio Rico, a semirural organization astir 12 miles northbound of nan U.S.-Mexico border, successful relationship pinch nan investigation. Deputies and FBI forensics experts and agents searched his family’s location overnight but did not find Guthrie. The man was released hours later and has denied immoderate engagement successful her disappearance. The Times is not naming him because he has not been arrested aliases accused of a crime.

Nancy Guthrie, nan 84-year-old mother of “Today” big Savannah Guthrie, was discovered missing Feb. 1 aft she didn’t show up to a friend’s location to watch a religion service. She was taken from her location without her bosom medication, and it’s unclear really agelong she tin past without it.

A time aft Guthrie disappeared, news outlets received identical ransom notes that investigators treated arsenic legitimate. Days later, a statement was sent straight to nan Guthrie family, allegedly from a man surviving successful Hawthorne, that authorities opportunity was an impostor.

Another ransom statement was sent to a tv position successful Arizona past week.

Sources told The Times that authorities person nary impervious nan personification who authored nan ransom notes has Guthrie. But they besides said nan Feb. 2 statement felt reliable because it included specifications astir a circumstantial damaged portion of spot and nan placement of an accessory successful nan location that had not been made public.

On Friday, TMZ said it received a missive from personification claiming to cognize nan personality of nan personification who abducted Guthrie and demanding nan $100,000 FBI reward successful bitcoin. The personification wrote they don’t spot nan FBI, which is why they’re sending nan connection done TMZ, nan website’s founder, Harvey Levin, told CNN.

“The manhunt of nan main individual that tin springiness you each nan answers beryllium prepared to spell international,” nan missive reads, according to Levin.

Authorities person released constricted specifications astir different grounds successful nan case.

A female walks her canine past a Pima region sheriff’s conveyance parked successful beforehand of Nancy Guthrie’s location connected Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2026 successful Tucson, Ariz.

(Ty ONeil / Associated Press)

However, nan Pima County Sheriff’s Department said Friday that investigators located respective gloves, including immoderate recovered astir 2 miles from Guthrie’s home, that are being tested.

Authorities besides recovered DNA grounds that does not beryllium to Guthrie aliases members of her family astatine her home. Investigators are moving to place whom nan DNA belongs to, according to nan sheriff’s department.

Staff writer Hannah Fry contributed to this report