A man has been arrested outside of Nancy Guthrie‘s Arizona home on suspicion of a DUI—after he was reportedly 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, with NewsNation correspondent Brian Entin capturing footage of the moment he was cuffed by authorities.
“It’s probably like 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 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 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.
