Former FBI agent calls holster setup in Nancy Guthrie case 'incredibly amateur and unsafe'

TUCSON, Ariz. - Former FBI agents are questioning a holster configuration seen successful surveillance video tied to the Nancy Guthrie case, calling the evident pairing of a semi-automatic handgun with a revolver-style polyester holster "incredibly amateur and unsafe."

During an quality connected Fox News' Hannity, TMZ laminitis Harvey Levin said his squad intimately examined the precocious released surveillance video and believes that the fishy was carrying a semi-automatic pistol wrong a brushed polyester holster typically associated with revolvers. 

"Typically, radical who person a polyester holster transportation a revolver successful it," Levin told Sean Hannity Wednesday night. "In this case, it was a semi-automatic handgun."

Levin acknowledged helium is not a firearms adept but said weapon specialists told him the pairing is unusual. He said TMZ began contacting weapon ranges successful the Tucson country to spot whether anyone mightiness retrieve spotting idiosyncratic carrying what helium described arsenic a mismatched setup.

"We weren’t capable to find anything," Levin said, adding that the FBI and the sheriff’s section are pursuing akin inquiries.

Photos released connected Feb. 10, 2025, amusement a "subject" carrying a weapon connected Nancy Guthrie's property.  (FBI)

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‘Incredibly amateur and unsafe,’ erstwhile FBI cause says

John Nantz, a erstwhile FBI agent, told Fox News Digital the holster appears ill-fitted and perchance unsafe.

"The holster intelligibly doesn’t acceptable the semi-automatic pistol," Nantz said. "It’s incredibly amateur and unsafe. The weapon could easy autumn retired of that holster. No 1 adjacent minimally trained oregon experienced would transportation a firearm successful that fashion."

Law enforcement experts suggest 5 cardinal clues seen successful the surveillance footage obtained from Nancy Guthrie's location could uncover the individuality of the idiosyncratic seen approaching her Arizona home.  (FBI)

Nantz noted that trained professionals typically transportation semi-automatic handguns successful molded Kydex oregon leather holsters designed for circumstantial firearm models and equipped with retention systems that unafraid the limb successful place.

Retired FBI Supervisory Special Agent Jason Pack said that Kydex holsters, which is simply a hard integrative benignant often utilized by police, are designed to "click" oregon fastener into place, portion leather holsters are often shaped to acceptable circumstantial firearms.

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"I’ve ne'er seen anybody transportation a holster close determination before, similar that," Pack said, adding that the holster appears inconsistent with the rigid, model-specific holsters commonly utilized by instrumentality enforcement.

Pack besides noted that inexpensive nylon oregon polyester holsters are wide disposable astatine big-box retailers and regularly utilized by civilian weapon owners.

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Authorities person not publically indicated whether the holster configuration is cardinal to their investigation.

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Nancy Guthrie disappearance timeline:

January 31, 2026

• Between 9:30–9:45 p.m. – Family drops Nancy disconnected astatine home
• 9:50 p.m. – Garage doorway closes (per authorities)

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February 1, 2026

• 1:47 a.m. – Doorbell camera disconnects
• 2:12 a.m. – Security camera detects motion
• 2:28 a.m. – Pacemaker disconnects from telephone application
• 11:56 a.m. – Family checks connected Nancy aft she misses play religion livestream gathering
• 12:03 p.m. — 911 called
• 12:15 p.m. — sheriff’s deputies get astatine home