A man maintained his innocence after he was released from being detained for questioning in the disappearance of Savannah Guthrie’s mom, Nancy Guthrie.
The individual, who identified himself only as Carlos, told ABC15 Arizona’s Ford Hatchett that he was pulled over while DoorDashing in Rio Rico, Ariz., on Tuesday and was being “detained for kidnapping.”
“I asked, ‘The kidnapping of who?’ and they told me this lady … I don’t know her name,” he said as Hatchett helped Carlos identify the woman as Savannah Guthrie’s 84-year-old mom.
“I told [officers], ‘I work in Tucson for GLS. I might have delivered a package to your house, but I never kidnapped anybody,’” Carlos declared.
He said officials told him he was “free to go” after answering their questions about Nancy’s disappearance.
Carlos told reporters that he allegedly wasn’t read his Miranda rights until “two hours” after they detained him and that his wrists were swollen from how tight the handcuffs were on him.
On Tuesday, the Pima County Sheriff’s Department revealed they detained someone for questioning in connection with Nancy’s disappearance.
“This operation is expected to last several hours. No further details at this time,” they said in a statement.
Authorities also said they obtained a search warrant for a location in Rio Rico related to the investigation.
The update came hours after the FBI released horrifying home security camera photos of an armed masked person outside of Nancy’s door the night she disappeared.
In the videos and photos, the individual stood on Nancy’s front porch, wearing gloves, as the person tampered with her door camera.
The FBI said the video was “recovered from residual data located in backend systems.”
“Working with our partners — as of this morning, law enforcement has uncovered these previously inaccessible new images showing an armed individual appearing to have tampered with the camera at Nancy Guthrie’s front door the morning of her disappearance,” they said in a statement.
Page Six spoke with longtime private investigator Andy Kay, who told us the surveillance videos came from Nest and that the “cameras will record to the servers as long as they have internet.”
Once images of the suspect were released, Savannah, 54, posted them on Instagram, pleading for the safe return of her mother.
“We believe she is still alive. Bring her home,” she captioned one of her posts, with a second caption reading, “Someone out there recognizes this person. We believe she is still out there. Bring her home.”
The “Today” show host and her relatives were instructed to place $6 million in a bitcoin account by 5 p.m./7 p.m. ET MT Monday as a second ransom deadline.
Though they did not pay the ransom before the deadline expired, Page Six confirmed that activity was recently shown in the bitcoin account.
Nancy was last seen on Jan. 31 after she was dropped off at her Tucson, Ariz., home by her daughter Annie and her son-in-law Tommaso Cioni following a daily dinner.
Police were notified that the elder was missing when she didn’t attend a viral church service the following morning.
During the investigation into her disappearance, authorities found a trail of blood at the home that belonged to Nancy.
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