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Delivery driver briefly detained in Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance says he has no idea who she is

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Arizona authorities briefly detained a man for questioning in the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie. And the man, later identified as a local delivery driver, told reporters that he had no idea who the elderly woman even was.

A spokeswoman for the Pima County Sheriff’s Department said that deputies detained the man during a traffic stop south of Tucson on Tuesday.

That man was later identified in news reports as Carlos Palazuelos, who said he was driving around working when authorities stopped him, handcuffed him, hauled him off, and held him “against my will.”

“I don’t know anything,” Palazuelos told reporters, according to video posted on X. The man said he wasn’t even aware that Nancy Guthrie, the mother of “Today” show host Savannah Guthrie, had been missing.

“I don’t follow the news,” said Palazuelos, adding, “I hope they get the suspect because I’m not it.”

Authorities believe 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie, who has limited mobility, a pacemaker, and relies on daily medication for a heart condition, was abducted from her Arizona home in the middle of the night 11 days ago.

Tuesday’s detainment took place hours after the FBI and the Pima County Sheriff’s Department released images recovered from Nancy Guthrie’s missing Nest doorbell camera showing a person in a ski mask who appeared to be tampering with Guthrie’s security device. Authorities said the video of the person, who they said was armed, was captured the day she disappeared.

Palazuelos told Fox News during an interview that it was a “possibility” that he may have once delivered a package to Nancy Guthrie’s ranch-style home, but that he wasn’t sure.


Photo of a masked person at Nancy Guthrie's door.

Surveillance image of a masked person at Nancy Guthrie’s door the day she disappeared.

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“All I know is that they showed my in-law a picture of somebody wearing a mask or something, and they supposedly looked like my eyes,” Palazuelos said.

The man also told reporters that investigators searched his Rio Rico home and damaged the front door and garage door.

The Pima County Sheriff’s Department did not immediately return a request for comment from Business Insider regarding the man’s detainment.




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This one activity remained the largest driver of GDP growth in 2025 — not AI, according to a new report

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Worried about the AI bubble? A new report suggests AI was not the main leg propping up the economy in 2025.

Macro Research Board Partners, an economic research platform, published a report in January that contradicted the popular belief that AI is the main driver of GDP and that the “narrowly concentrated” and “extremely vulnerable” growth would tank the entire economy once it falters.

“In short, without an AI boom, there would have certainly been less GDP growth last year, but there would also be fewer imports, so that overall real growth would still have been decent,” wrote economic strategist Prajakta Bhide, who authored the report.

Bhide told Business Insider that personal consumption, meaning the spending of everyday people, was still the main pillar of GDP growth in 2025, and that despite the amount of investment in AI infrastructure, a lot of high-tech equipment is imported, and imports do not contribute to GDP.

The main categories that count toward GDP are personal consumption, private domestic investment, government spending, and net exports.

“Consumers continue to be the backbone of the economy,” Bhide told Business Insider. “Aggregate income growth is lower than it used to be, and so is job growth, which affected consumer sentiments. But there is a divide between what consumers say they feel and what they say that they’re going to do versus what they actually go and do.”

AI growth was an important secondary driver of GDP growth, the report found, but that is mostly from software investment, while the contribution of data centers is “negligible.”

“Although a negative shock to the optimism around AI implies a risk to GDP growth,” Bhide wrote in the report, “the more realistic (and smaller) estimate of AI’s growth impact after adjusting for imports dispels the popular notion that the US economy would falter without it.”

Beyond the GDP, concerns about the AI bubble are also tied to the stock market and people’s retirement funds. America’s eight most valuable public companies, including Nvidia, Alphabet, and Apple, are all betting heavily on AI and are worth $22 trillion altogether.

Business Insider has previously reported that historically, a pullback in consumer spending has rarely been the trigger for an economic downturn. Instead, spending typically weakens only after job losses mount and when a recession is already well underway.




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