FBI increases reward in Nancy Guthrie case as search

The FBI has elevated the reward for locating Nancy Guthrie to $100K. 

The federal company announced on social media that it might enhance the reward from $50,000 to $100K. FBI Phoenix wrote that they have been upping “the reward up to $100,000 for information leading to the location of Nancy Guthrie and/or the arrest and conviction of anyone involved in her disappearance.”

“The suspect is described as a male, approximately 5’9” – 5’10” tall, with an average build. In the video, he is wearing a black, 25-liter ‘Ozark Trail Hiker Pack’ backpack. We hope this updated description will help concentrate the public tips we are receiving. Since February 1, 2026, the FBI has collected over 13,000 tips from the public related to this case,” the publish said.

The publish included pictures of the Ozark Trail Hiker Pack backpack from the surveillance footage launched by the FBI on February 10. FBI Director Kash Patel publicly launched movies and pictures of a masked and “armed” determine.

“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,” he wrote in a publish on X, previously Twitter.

The footage and pictures revealed a person sporting a masks, gloves, a zipped-up jacket, pants, and sneakers. The particular person also had a backpack and a holstered handgun. They have been also at Nancy’s residence round the time that investigators consider she was taken early on February 1.

Patel also explained in his X publish how the surveillance footage was recovered.

The FBI director said it was recovered “from residual data located in backend systems.” He also said that the FBI and the sheriff’s division have been working carefully with their “private sector partners” to continue recovering any pictures or video footage from Nancy’s residence that “may have been lost, corrupted, or inaccessible.”

Later on Tuesday, there was news that a person was detained by the Pima County Sheriff’s Department in reference to Nancy’s kidnapping. The division confirmed the breaking news on their social media. The authorities had detained the man during a visitors cease in an space south of Tucson, and then began to look into the location linked to him.

The particular person held in custody for questioning was launched, and he spoke to ABC15 about his detainment.

“They didn’t even tell me what’s going on until the detectives got here… They told me I was being detained for kidnapping, and I asked them, ‘Kidnapping of who?'” the man, who recognized himself as “Carlos,” told the outlet.

It’s day 12 for the search for Nancy, who was reported lacking on February 1. The 84-year-old was last seen the day prior after attending dinner with household and being dropped off.