A man previously reported to have driven past Nancy Guthrie’s Tucson home dozens of times was arrested Thursday night on DUI charges, authorities said. Antonio De Jesus Pena-Campos, 34, was taken into custody by the Pima County Sheriff’s Department after reporters observed him driving a blue Chevrolet SUV “very slowly” near the property, The Daily Mail reported.
Deputies conducted a field sobriety test after arriving at the scene and determined he failed, officials said. He was handcuffed and placed in a patrol vehicle.
Authorities stressed that the arrest is not connected to the disappearance of Savannah Guthrie’s mother.
Footage obtained by Fox News showed deputies shining a flashlight into the SUV before Pena-Campos exited the vehicle and spoke with officers near a large white tent set up outside the residence.
Video also showed him attempting to walk in a straight line and follow a small flashlight with his eyes during the sobriety test.
Before police confirmed the driver’s identity, NewsNation correspondent Brian Entin reported the vehicle “just kept stopping” outside the property and passed by “between 50 and 100 times.”
A media photographer who approached the man said he appeared to have a photo of Nancy Guthrie on his phone.
“It is weird. There’s some just like creepy people that come by,” Entin said.
The arrest comes as the search for Nancy Guthrie approaches its fourth week.
The 84-year-old was last seen Jan. 31 after being dropped off at her Tucson home by her son-in-law, Tommaso Cioni, following a dinner and game night at her eldest daughter Annie’s house.
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She was reported missing the following morning after she failed to appear for church services.
Footage from her Nest doorbell camera showed an unidentified individual wearing a ski mask outside her door early Feb. 1.
Around that same time, her pacemaker stopped transmitting data to her iPhone and Apple Watch, according to authorities.
Investigators from the sheriff’s office and the FBI have been working the case since, but her whereabouts remain unknown.
Savannah Guthrie and her siblings, Annie and Camron, have posted emotional videos online urging anyone with information to come forward.
On Tuesday, Savannah Guthrie acknowledged publicly for the first time that her mother may not be alive.
“We need to know where she is, we need her to come home,” she said in a video posted to Instagram.
“We also know that she may be lost, she may already be gone. She may have already gone home to the Lord that she loves,” she said.
Guthrie later posted additional videos explaining how tipsters can claim the $1 million reward being offered for information leading to her mother’s safe return.
“Please – be the one that brings her home,” she wrote. “Tips can be anonymous, reward can be paid in cash, as explained here.”
The FBI recently began scaling back its nearly month-long search operation and moved its primary command post more than 100 miles away from Phoenix, according to ABC News.
Some agents remain in Tucson while others are now working the case from Phoenix.
Sources told ABC the shift does not signal that investigators are abandoning the case.
Agents were seen again at the residence Wednesday as officials prepared to return the home to the Guthrie family.
The renewed activity was part of an FBI effort to transition the property back to the family after weeks of forensic work, officials told NBC News.
