FBI Hitting AZ Gun Dealers w "Hit List" of Suspects in Search of Today Star's Missing Mom| Crime Alert 6AM 02.19.2026
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
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🗓️ 19 February 2026
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The feds are reportedly doing a deep dive at Arizona guns shops armed with a 'hit list' of suspects as the hunt for Nancy Guthrie & her abductor continues.
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| 0:00.0 | Crime Alert, hourly update. Breaking Crime News Now. |
| 0:04.0 | I'm Jennifer Gould. Federal agents have launched a massive dragnet across Arizona gun stores, |
| 0:10.8 | armed with a secret gallery of photos and a list of nearly two dozen potential suspects in the abduction of 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie. |
| 0:20.9 | Philip Martin, co-owner of Armor Bearer Arms in Tucson, revealed that FBI agents |
| 0:27.3 | recently descended on his shop with a three-page hit list containing 18 to 24 names and |
| 0:35.2 | photographs. Martin spoke to Fox News. |
| 0:38.2 | There was probably six or seven names. There were six or seven people per sheet. And so I just went through each sheet, all three sheets, and I typed in the last name. And nothing popped up. |
| 0:49.8 | Investigators demanded a deep dive into electronic sales records from the past year, |
| 0:55.3 | desperately searching for a match to the armed phantom, |
| 0:59.2 | caught on doorbell footage tampering with a nest camera at Nancy's front door. |
| 1:04.4 | While Martin found no hits in his system, |
| 1:07.7 | the FBI confirmed to him they are canvassing every weapon dealer in the region |
| 1:13.5 | to ID the gunman who snatched the mom of today co-host Savannah Guthrie on February 1st. |
| 1:21.3 | The clock is ticking on a forensic nightmare that began at 2.28 a.m. inside Nancy's Tucson Estate, when her pacemaker suddenly lost |
| 1:31.0 | connection to a phone app, a haunting digital heartbeat that went silent, just minutes after her |
| 1:38.2 | nest camera was manually disconnected. The suspect, a male standing, 5-9 to 5-10 with an average build and facial hair, |
| 1:47.7 | was captured on film wearing a black ski mask, a zip-up fleece, and a 25-liter Ozark Trail |
| 1:56.0 | Hiker pack believed to be purchased from Walmart. Retired Pima County Lieutenant and SWAT commander, |
| 2:04.2 | Bob Krieger spoke to CBS News. That might be the only piece of evidence that shows up that can |
| 2:10.2 | put two and two together. It could be very significant. The FBI is now working with Walmart |
| 2:15.6 | and other retailers to track the specific purchase history of the items, including a holster scene on the suspect's hip, his gear, and that backpack. |
| 2:26.9 | Despite the kidnapper brandishing a firearm in the footage, DNA recovered from a pair of gloves, discarded two miles away, yielded zero matches in the FBI's |
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