Search warrant conducted, person arrested near US-Mexico border over Nancy Guthrie's disappearance
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Police are searching a home in Arizona and have detained a person for questioning over the disappearance of US TV host Savannah Guthrie's mother Nancy Guthrie.
The Pima County Sheriff's Department said deputies detained an individual during a traffic stop south of Tucson in Arizona and he is being spoken to regarding the missing 84-year-old.
The person was detained near the US-Mexico border in Rio Rico.
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Nancy Guthrie has been missing for 10 days. NBC via CNN Newsource
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A search warrant is currently being executed at a home in the same area.
Rio Rico is located around 20 kilometres north of the US-Mexico border.
No charges have been laid.
The County Sheriff's Department said it would release more information as it became available.
It remains unclear if the person in custody is the same person pictured in doorbell footage released earlier today.
FBI director Kash Patel earlier told media that investigators were looking at multiple individuals as a "person of interest" in the case.
He said the FBI's investigation has found there "might be person of interest in and around the area related to this event".
Nancy, who has been missing for 10 days, was last seen at her home in Tucson on January 31.
Video shows a masked man on the doorstep of missing US woman Nancy Guthrie. Kash Patel/FBI/X
Her daughter, journalist and long-term co-anchor of the Today US television news program Savannah Guthrie, has issued repeated pleas for information and even appealed to the unknown kidnappers, offering to pay a ransom.
The arrest comes after chilling CCTV footage of a man on the doorstep of her own was released by the FBI.
Patel posted the images online early today, saying they had been recovered "from residual data located in backend systems".
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