A person has been taken into custody in the southwestern US state of Arizona as part of the investigation into the apparent abduction of Nancy Guthrie, the mother of NBC journalist and "Today" show co-anchor Savannah Guthrie, officials said on Tuesday. According to the Pima County Sheriff's Department, the person was taken into custody during a traffic stop near the city of Tucson, where Nancy Guthrie lived.
The FBI had managed to get eyes on Ryan James Wedding, a Canadian they suspected of running a violent cocaine-smuggling operation across South and North America. The episode at the coffee shop described by U.S. prosecutors in court documents summarizing their case against Wedding amounts to the only sighting that authorities have confirmed publicly, since Wedding first fled criminal charges in 2015.
The FBI has infiltrated a signal chat used by court watchers simply to know what's on the docket in the cases in this building, to identify where ICE agents are, and while engaging in constitutionally protected non-violent legal activity, the FBI in a throwback to the days of J Edgar Hoover, is infiltrating and surveilling nonviolent, legal, constitutionally protected political activity, and I have to tell you: I am outraged by it,