Identity of ‘Creepy’ Person Arrested in Front of Nancy Guthrie’s House Revealed After Reports Searchers Are Looking For ‘Something Decomposed’
Nancy Guthrie has been gone for over a month, and yet the investigation has not slowed down. Law enforcement continues to sift through clues and look for possible suspects and motives in the disappearance of Savannah Guthrie’s mom. And recently, it seemed like perhaps the police had caught a break after they finally arrested someone.
However, the identity of that man has now been reported, and it doesn’t look like the big break some expected it to be. Antonio De Jesus Pena-Campos, 34, was arrested after driving past Nancy Guthrie’s Tucson home “50 to 100 times” while looking at a photo of the missing 84-year-old on his phone, according to NewsNation correspondent Brian Entin. He was later arrested.
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“It’s probably nothing but, like, it is weird. There’s some just like some creepy people that come by,” Entin said in his video. “There are some weird people that show up out here. There’s this guy in this car right here who literally drove by like 50 to 100 times, very slowly. It was just weird. He would go right by the memorial [outside of Nancy’s home] and he just kept stopping, literally 50 to 100 times tonight.”
Entin also said that a member of the media “tried to talk to him and saw that he had a picture of Nancy Guthrie on his phone.” Later, Pena-Campos was stopped by police and taken into custody after failing a roadside sobriety test.
The Pima County Sheriff’s Department confirmed the arrest and noted that Pena-Campos has no connection to Nancy Guthrie’s case.
It all comes as the search for Nancy Guthrie continues, with more volunteers helping look around the neighborhood. Tucson resident Lupita Tello, a member of the Mexico-based volunteer search group Madres Buscadoras de Sonora, explained the search to USA Today. She demonstrated by poking at the dirt outside of the home with a sharp metal rod soldered to a handle, then wiggling the rod around, pulling it out, and smelling it. “If it smells bad like something decomposed, that’s where we start,” she said.
Savannah Guthrie recently shared a video where she said she has “accepted” that her missing mother “may already be gone.” On Instagram, she said that she and her siblings, sister Annie, and brother Camron, have already come to terms with the possibility that their mother may have passed, but said they “still believe in a miracle.”
“It is day 24 since our mom was taken in the dark of night from her bed, and every hour and minute and second and every long night has been agony since then — of worrying about her and fearing for her and aching for her and most of all, just missing her,” Savannah said on a video uploaded February 24. “We still believe in a miracle. We still believe that she can come home. Hope against hope. As my sister says, we are blowing on the embers of hope.”
“We also know that she may be lost; she may already be gone. She may already have gone home to the Lord that she loves, and is dancing in heaven with her mom and her dad and her beloved brother, Pierce, and with our daddy,” Savannah added. “And if this is what is to be, then we will all accept it. But we need to know where she is. We need her to come home.”
