YouTuber Alexander Zabel Jr arrested again near Nancy Guthrie’s home amid investigation disruption

[00:00:00]The Nancy Guthrie case just took a shocking new turn. And this time, the chaos is not coming from inside the investigation. It is coming from outside the house. Nancy Guthrie, the 84year-old mother of Today's show co-anchor Savannah Guthrie, vanished from her Tucson, Arizona home on February 1, 2026. She was reported missing the following day after failing to appear for a virtual church service.

[00:00:29]Investigators have previously stated they believe she was taken against her will. Blood matching her DNA was found on her front porch.

[00:00:39]131 days later, she has still not been found. No suspect has been publicly identified. No arrest has been made in connection with her disappearance. The investigation remains active. The FBI remains involved.

[00:00:56]And now the neighborhood where she was last seen has become something that law enforcement is describing as a serious problem. On June 11, 2026, just before 5 0 p.m., deputies with the Puma County Sheriff's Department arrested 54year-old Alexander Zable Jr. in front of Nancy Guthri's home. Zable runs a YouTube channel called Criminal Network. He had been live streaming from outside the residence when deputies responded to multiple complaints about his behavior from neighbors in the area. This was the second time in 3 days that Zable had been detained in the same neighborhood.

[00:01:41]3 days earlier, he had been arrested along with two other YouTubers on suspicion of obstruction of a highway or thorough affair and public nuisance.

[00:01:51]Two arrests in three days outside the home of a missing 84year-old woman by a man who was live streaming his own arrest while sitting on the curb. The footage from the June 11 arrest is now circulating widely. In the live stream, Zabel is sitting on the curb outside the Guthrie residence when deputies pull up and ask him to stand up. The encounter escalated from there with deputies telling Zable he was under arrest and then wrestling to control him as he repeatedly asked what the charge was.

[00:02:26]During the arrest process, a sheriff's sergeant was knocked to the ground.

[00:02:31]Zable was subsequently taken into custody without further incident and booked into the Puma County Adult Detention Complex. He is facing charges of resisting arrest and public nuisance.

[00:02:44]The department confirmed it had received several complaints about his behavior prior to the arrest. But wait, let me ask you something. A missing person investigation is one of the most fragile, most time-sensitive, most evidence- dependent types of law enforcement work that exists. Every lead has to be followed. Every witness has to be interviewed. Every piece of surveillance footage has to be reviewed.

[00:03:12]Every neighbor who might have seen something has to be approached and questioned in a way that makes them feel safe enough to share what they know.

[00:03:20]Now, imagine trying to do all of that while a rotating cast of true crime YouTubers is camped outside the house, live streaming, knocking officers to the ground, making neighbors afraid to come outside.

[00:03:34]The sheriff's department has announced stricter enforcement in the neighborhood following complaints from residents.

[00:03:41]Officials described the behavior of content creators gathering at the scene as pretty scary to neighbors.

[00:03:48]Pretty scary to neighbors in a neighborhood that is already the site of one of the most frightening unsolved cases in the country. The people who live near Nancy Guthri's home are already living with the anxiety of knowing something violent happened on their block. And now they are also managing the presence of live streamers who are turning their neighborhood into a content production zone. The investigation deserves better than this.

[00:04:16]Nancy Guthri's family deserves better than this. And then came the Mexico tip.

[00:04:22]Because the same week that Zable was being arrested on the curb, a volunteer search collective in the Mexican city of Ngalas received an anonymous tip claiming that Nancy Guthri's remains were buried near the Maraposa port of entry at the Mexico Arizona border.

[00:04:39]Volunteers with the Buscando Corazans Collective, a group dedicated to searching for missing persons in the border region, went to the site. They searched. They found no evidence linking the location to Nancy Guthri's disappearance.

[00:04:56]The Puma County Sheriff's Department confirmed on social media that it had not been contacted by Mexican authorities regarding the tip. No evidence, no confirmed connection, no contact from Mexican officials, an anonymous tip that led to a search that produced nothing. But the fact that the tip existed, the fact that someone somewhere sent a message pointing toward a border crossing and a burial site is now part of the public record of this case. And it is being processed by a family that has been waiting for answers since February 1. The case has now been classified as a homicide investigation.

[00:05:39]That reclassification is significant. It means that law enforcement is no longer operating on the possibility that Nancy Guthrie might be found alive. It means the investigative resources, the forensic priorities, the legal tools available to the department have all shifted toward finding out what happened rather than finding her in time to change the outcome.

[00:06:03]The reward for information leading to her whereabouts stands at over $1 million.

[00:06:10]Savannah Guthrie returned to the Today Show in April, weeks after her mother's disappearance, and was overwhelmed when fans outside Rockefeller Plaza held signs in her mother's honor. She said through tears that the family felt the prayers.

[00:06:27]31 days. A homicide classification. An anonymous tip from Mexico that led nowhere. A YouTuber arrested twice in 3 days outside the house. A sheriff's sergeant knocked to the ground during a live stream. And somewhere in Tucson, the same neighbors who might have seen something on the night of January 30.

[00:06:50]One are watching content creators film in front of the house where an 84year-old woman was taken and wondering whether any of it is helping. It is not helping. It is making it harder. It is creating noise in a neighborhood that investigators need to be able to work in quietly and carefully. It is intimidating witnesses. It is generating false tips. It is turning a family's worst nightmare into someone else's content. The Puma County Sheriff's Department is asking for the public's cooperation. Residents near the Guthrie home are asking for the same thing. And the family of Nancy Guthrie is asking for the one thing that no arrest, no live stream, and no anonymous tip from Mexico has yet provided an answer. If you have any information about the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie, please contact the Puma County Sheriff's Department or the FBI's Tucson field office immediately. The reward is over $1 million and a family is still waiting. Thank you for watching.