Man arrested on misdemeanor DUI charges outside Nancy Guthrie home after sobriety test

A 34-year-old antheral was arrested precocious Thursday nighttime extracurricular the Arizona location wherever Nancy Guthrie went missing earlier this month, the Pima County Sheriff’s Department told Fox News Digital.

Shortly earlier 8:00 p.m. connected Thursday, deputies arrested 34-year-old Antonio De Jesus Pena-Campos successful beforehand of Guthrie’s location connected misdemeanor DUI charges, the section said. 

The apprehension is not related to the Guthrie investigation, the Pima County Sheriff’s Department added.

Pima County sheriff’s deputies halt a bluish Chevrolet Equinox compact SUV adjacent Nancy Guthrie’s Tucson location precocious Thursday night. A antheral was aboriginal taken into custody aft what appeared to beryllium tract sobriety testing. (Fox News)

Footage from the country shows Pima County sheriff’s deputies shining a flashlight into the driver’s broadside of what appeared to beryllium a bluish Chevrolet Equinox compact SUV parked adjacent the location wherever Guthrie was past seen connected Feb. 1.

Moments later, deputies are seen speaking with Pena-Campos adjacent a achromatic canopy structure acceptable up on the roadside arsenic a lawman shines a flashlight toward the man’s face.

In different scene, Pena-Campos is seen walking successful a consecutive enactment successful what appears to beryllium portion of a tract sobriety test. In consequent footage, helium is placed successful the backmost of a sheriff’s pickup truck.

The detention unfolded arsenic investigators proceed searching for Guthrie, the 84-year-old parent of "Today" co-host Savannah Guthrie, who was reported missing Feb. 1 aft authorities said she was taken during a location invasion. Investigators person said her pacemaker past synced with her iPhone astir 2:30 a.m. that morning.

Her household has since offered a $1 cardinal reward for accusation starring to her harmless instrumentality arsenic authorities proceed to prosecute leads.

NANCY GUTHRIE'S NEIGHBOR SAW SUSPICIOUS MAN WALKING NEARBY 2 WEEKS BEFORE SUSPECTED ABDUCTION

A lawman shines a flashlight toward a man’s look during what appears to beryllium tract sobriety investigating extracurricular Nancy Guthrie’s Tucson location precocious Thursday night. The antheral was aboriginal taken into custody. (Fox News)

The improvement comes arsenic a Catalina Foothills resident’s street-facing Ring camera captured 12 vehicles passing by betwixt midnight and 6 a.m. connected Feb. 1 — the greeting Guthrie is believed to person been abducted.

Some of the enactment occurred astir the 2:30 a.m. mark, astir erstwhile authorities said the 84-year-old’s pacemaker past synced with her iPhone.

A antheral walks successful a consecutive enactment nether the absorption of deputies during what appears to beryllium tract sobriety investigating extracurricular Nancy Guthrie’s Tucson location precocious Thursday night. (Fox News)

Homeowners Elias and Danielle Stratigouleas told Fox News Digital that constabulary had not canvassed their vicinity successful the 25 days since Guthrie was allegedly taken from her furniture successful what authorities person described arsenic a location penetration kidnapping.

The mates said they alerted some the FBI and the Pima County Sheriff’s Department to the footage. It was not instantly wide whether the video would beryllium utile to investigators oregon whether immoderate of the vehicles had traveled connected Guthrie’s street.

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Pima County sheriff’s deputies talk with a antheral adjacent a achromatic canopy structure acceptable up on the roadside extracurricular Nancy Guthrie’s Tucson location precocious Thursday night. (Fox News)

The Stratigouleas location sits connected a backmost roadworthy that leads retired of Guthrie’s vicinity and avoids large intersections. The spot is astir 2.5 miles — oregon astir a seven-minute thrust — from the transgression scene, according to Google Maps.

One of the videos was recorded astatine astir 2:36 a.m., astir 8 minutes aft Guthrie’s pacemaker past synced with her iPhone, based connected the sheriff’s timeline.

Fox News' Michael Ruiz and Olivia Palombo contributed to this report. 

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