A suspect in the abduction of U.S. television host Savannah Guthrie’s elderly mother was taken into custody in Arizona on Tuesday, nine days after the 84-year-old woman was reported missing, a U.S. law enforcement official briefed on the case told Reuters.
No other details were immediately available about the suspect’s detention.
The breakthrough came hours after authorities released video and photos of an armed man in a ski mask apparently tampering with the door camera of Nancy Guthrie’s home near Tucson on the morning that she was believed to have been taken.
The images released by the FBI and Pima County Sheriff’s Department show the man, also wearing gloves, a backpack and what appears to be a gun in a holster, approaching Nancy Guthrie’s front door.
Authorities have said she was last seen on the night of January 31, when her family dropped her off at her home after dining with her. Relatives reported her missing the following day, according to the sheriff’s department, after she failed to show up for Sunday church services.
