A Bitcoin deposit has been made into the account related to Nancy Guthrie’s ransom note, Page Six can confirm.
About $152 worth of bitcoin appeared in the account’s publicly viewable logs on Tuesday.
TMZ was the first to report the news of a deposit being made.
This latest development happened just hours before the Pima County Sheriff’s Department revealed they had detained a person for questioning in connection with the disappearance of Savannah Guthrie’s mom.
The person was detained during a traffic stop in Rio Rico, Ariz., south of Tucson and near the Mexico border.
They also announced the department, assisted by the FBI’s Evidence Response Team, obtained a search warrant for a location in Rio Rico related to the investigation.
Additionally, FBI Director Kash Patel confirmed federal investigators were probing “persons of interest” during an interview with Fox News Tuesday night.
“Without polluting the investigation, I will say we have made substantial progress in these last 36-48 hours, thanks to the technical capabilities of the FBI and our partnerships and I do believe we are looking at people who, as we say, are persons of interest,” he explained.
The man later identified himself only as Carlos to ABC15 Arizona’s Ford Hatchett once he was released.
He maintained his innocence, explaining that he didn’t know who Nancy was, though he “might have delivered a package” to her home as he works for GLS.
After denying that he had any knowledge about Nancy’s kidnapping, the man was told by officers he was “free to go.”
Earlier in the day, the FBI released a series of horrifying photos and videos of a potential suspect.
In the terrifying images, which were obtained from the Nest camera on Nancy’s front door, an armed person in a ski mask was seen tampering with Nancy’s home security camera on the morning she was reported missing.
Nancy, 84, disappeared from her Arizona home after she was dropped off by her son-in-law, Tomasso Cioni, on Jan. 31 following a family dinner.
She was reported missing on Feb. 1 after she failed to arrive at a friend’s home the next morning to attend virtual church services.
The next day, Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos confirmed Nancy’s home was being treated as a crime scene. Nancy is believed to have been “taken from the home against her will, possibly in the middle of the night.”
Since their mom’s disappearance, Savannah, as well as her siblings Annie and Camron, have been pleading for her return.
In a particularly touching video uploaded on Feb. 7, the “Today” show host said, “We beg you now to return our mother to us, so that we can celebrate with her. This is the only way we will have peace. This is very valuable to us, and we will pay.”
Meanwhile, NBC has ramped up security and police presence at its “tense” New York City studio out of an “abundance of caution.”
Savannah’s co-hosts expressed on-air how “rattled” they felt, with Sheinelle Jones saying, “A lot of us [have] had trouble sleeping.”
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