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A “person of interest” who was detained in the Nancy Guthrie case late Tuesday, said he was questioned after he delivered a FedEx package to her house the day she went missing.

The FedEx package is seen tucked behind a pillar in a Fox News video recorded the day after the mother of “Today” show anchor Savannah Guthrie was reported missing.

Nancy Guthrie was last seen on Jan. 31, when she was dropped off at her $1 million Tucson area home by daughter, Annie Guthrie, and son-in-law, Tommaso Cioni.

A church friend reported Nancy missing on Sunday, Feb. 1.

The FedEx driver, who asked to be identified only as “Carlos,” spoke to ABC15 News moments after his release from custody early Wednesday.

Carlos said his wife was driving when their car was surrounded by law enforcement. “I got out of the car, and they arrested me,” he said. “They told me I was being detained for kidnapping. I asked them, ‘kidnapping of who?'” Carlos said he had never heard of Nancy Guthrie before. “Never until today. Supposedly, I was at her house, but I never kidnapped anybody.”

After detaining Carlos, a SWAT team broke down his mother-in-law’s front door in Rio Ricos and confiscated the family’s electronic devices.

Carlos said he was detained for several hours until detectives arrived to question him.

“They didn’t even tell me what’s going on until the detectives got here”, he told ABC15. When a detective asked if he’d kidnapped anyone, Carlos responded with a laugh, saying, “No.” Police later told him, he was “free to go,” though he was told the FBI might contact him again.

Carlos is not the masked person seen in B&W surveillance images and videos released by FBI Director Kash Patel on Tuesday.

The video shows a feminine individual wearing a ski mask tampering with a Nest doorbell camera at Nancy Guthrie’s home on Jan. 31.

The person wore a backpack, black latex gloves and carried a gun in a holster on their belt.