Don’t call 911 with tips about Nancy Guthrie. That’s the plea from the Pima County Sheriff’s Department amid their hunt for whoever took the 84-year-old mother of “Today” show host Savannah Guthrie.
The office posted its request to the public on Tuesday, hours after FBI Director Kash Patel released security camera photos and video of a potential suspect. CNN’s Jake Tapper reports the department has seen a “huge uptick” in tips since the video was released.
“The Pima County Sheriff’s Department recognizes that members of the community may have thoughts, opinions, feelings or questions regarding the Nancy Guthrie case,” the release said. “However, 9-1-1 & the PCSD non-emergency line are not the appropriate venue for expressing those views.”
The department directed calls to the FBI’s tip line at 1-800-CALL-FBI, 88-CRIME, 520-351-4900 or tips.fbi.gov.
Suspect images released
Video released Tuesday morning captured on Guthrie’s Ring doorbell camera shows what police consider a suspect wearing a jacket, ski mask and gloves with a firearm holstered outside of their waistband.
Patel said the data was difficult to retrieve since Guthrie didn’t have a subscription to keep the footage, so agents had to find the videos using residual data from backend systems.
“Working with our partners, as of this morning, law enforcement has uncovered these previously inaccessible new images showing an armed individual appearing to have tampered with the camera at Nancy Guthrie’s front door the morning of her disappearance,” Patel said in the post.
The doorbell camera was removed when police arrived.
Savannah Guthrie also shared the photos online, saying, “We believe she is still alive. Bring her home.”
Who ordered pizza?
In addition to asking community members to stop calling 911 with comments, the sheriff’s department is also asking that people stop ordering pizza to be delivered to the Guthrie residence.
The pies, which prompted questions about how a pizza delivery could have made it that far into a police-controlled area, were reportedly delivered to a journalist by one of their viewers.
