As the investigation into Nancy Guthrie’s suspected abduction extended toward the end of its first month and into its fourth week, a strange situation unfolded on late Thursday evening outside her Tucson, Arizona, home, where the police took a man under arrest.
The police reportedly took the man into custody for a DUI after he repeatedly drove past the property where a kidnapper took Savannah Guthrie’s 84-year-old mother on February 1. NewsNation reporter Brian Entin documented the scene in a couple of video updates.
Man reportedly arrested outside Nancy Guthrie’s home for reported DUI
Brian Entin claimed that a man in a blue car drove past Nancy Guthrie’s house “50 to 100 times” very slowly, and the police took him under arrest later under DUI charges. The driver allegedly kept stopping near a memorial set up for the missing woman and kept looking at her photo on his phone while driving by the house. Finding the behavior alarming, a photographer approached the suspicious man and notified the Pima County Sheriff’s officers.
Per Entin, deputies reportedly spoke with the driver for about 20 minutes, appeared to request a translator, and eventually asked the man to step out of his car to perform a field sobriety test. Entin watched the events unfold from the street and later updated that the driver ended up getting arrested for a DUI. Moreover, the police eventually took him away from the scene.
This unusual arrest happened right outside the home where investigators say a masked, armed suspect disconnected Guthrie’s doorbell camera at 1:47 a.m. the night she vanished. Besides, her pacemaker app disconnected from her phone less than an hour later.
While Nancy Guthrie’s family and the FBI are currently offering a combined $1.2 million reward for information leading to her recovery, this recent DUI arrest is notably a developing and inconclusive story in the suspected kidnapping case.
To submit a tip or for official updates, the FBI urges citizens to call 1-800-CALL-FBI.
Originally reported by Ishika Mishra on Reality Tea.
