Nancy Guthrie updates: Person detained for questioning in connection with abduction: Official

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The Pima County Sheriff’s Department, with assistance from the FBI, has detained an individual for questioning in connection with the abduction of Nancy Guthrie, a law enforcement official briefed on the investigation told ABC News.
The individual was detained in a location south of Tucson, the source said, and law enforcement is preparing to search a location associated with the individual.
The development followed the first images released of a masked man approaching Nancy Guthrie’s front door and as investigators continued to search in her neighborhood.
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Good evening, we're coming back on the air at this hour because there's been a development
in the search for Nancy Guthrie, the 84-year-old mother of Today Show host Savannah Guthrie.
The Pima County Sheriff's Department, with assistance from the FBI, has detained an individual
at this hour for questioning in connection with the abduction of Nancy Guthrie, again,
a person detained in connection with this case.
A law enforcement official briefed on the investigation, telling ABC News.
I want to bring in our Chief Investigative Correspondent, Aaron Kuturski, live in Tucson.
Aaron, do we know where this person was detained?
This individual was detained in connection with Nancy Guthrie's disappearance.
According to the law enforcement official, David, south of Tucson, a specific location
was not disclosed, but we know that a SWAT team had left the Pima County Sheriff's Department
heading to Point South, and at a location south of Tucson, a law enforcement official
tells ABC News, an individual has been detained in connection with Nancy Guthrie's disappearance.
David, this development comes on the same day the first images of an individual approaching
Nancy Guthrie's home were released, and as authorities continued to search in and around
this neighborhood where her home is, we saw them searching a drainpipe, conducting other
investigative steps today.
But the breaking development here now, David, an individual has been detained for questioning
in connection with the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie.
Aaron, stay with me here.
Aaron with us live from Tucson.
We can show the audience the video now of the person, the subject that the FBI had released
video of earlier in the day.
This was the first time we had seen a development of this scope in this case.
Someone at the door.
This was video retrieved from that Nest camera after the FBI worked directly with Google.
And Aaron, just to be clear here, this person detained in connection with the case, authorities
are not saying if it's the person that we see in this video.
They're also not saying this is a suspect.
They're simply saying at this hour a person detained in connection with this case.
They are only saying that it's an individual detained in connection with the case, not
calling the person a suspect or a person of interest, not saying there's any connection
at this point with the images that were released earlier today by the FBI.
But law enforcement officials have obtained a search warrant.
They're going to be searching a location south of Tucson where this individual was detained.
They're going to be going through that location.
That could take hours.
And either that search would resolve the matter, and that could be it, or there could be some
further development associated with this individual.
But right now, the person is not considered a suspect.
We're told only someone taken for questioning detained.
And with just a few seconds left, Aaron, a search warrant that will play out in the location
where they detained this person?
That's right, David.
The search warrant is for a location associated with this individual.
Specifically, what it says, what they're looking for has not been made clear.
All right.
Aaron Kuterski, our chief investigative correspondent, reporting at this hour, a person has been
detained in connection with the disappearance of 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie.
Of course, the mother of today's show host, Savannah Guthrie.
The whole nation has been praying for days that there would be a development that would
bring Nancy Guthrie home.
We'll continue to follow this.
For those of you in the West at this hour, we're just about three minutes away from World
News Tonight.
More at abcnews.com.
I'm David Buer.
Good night.
This has been a special report from ABC News.
