United Cajun Navy offers search and rescue services in hunt for Nancy Guthrie

TUCSON, Ariz. – A Louisiana-based nonprofit that specializes successful providing catastrophe relief, hunt and rescue, and assistance during emergencies said it has offered its services to Arizona authorities successful the hunt for Nancy Guthrie. 

Josh Gill, the incidental commandant for the United Cajun Navy (UCN), said the radical reached retired to the Pima County Sheriff's Office and different instrumentality enforcement agencies progressive successful the Guthrie case. 

"We privation to supply what we can… to assistance with the hunt and, hopefully, bring Mrs. Guthrie home," Gill told Fox News Digital extracurricular of Guthrie's Catalina Foothills home. "We conscionable privation to supply immoderate resources. I cognize they're accepting volunteers now, and they conscionable privation to marque definite the volunteers aren't perchance contaminating an probe oregon disrupting an investigation."

United Cajun Navy typical Josh Gill successful beforehand of Nancy Guthrie's home. Gill said the Louisiana-based nonprofit has reached retired to authorities to assistance successful the hunt for Guthrie.  (Fox News Digital)

A spokesperson for the sheriff's section told Fox News Digital that the bureau was unaware of UCN's offer.

"We person not been advised of this radical reaching retired to PCSD astir helping with hunt efforts," the spokesperson said. 

The UCN has assisted instrumentality enforcement with searches for missing persons, specified arsenic erstwhile dozens of children went missing amid terrible floods successful Kerrville, Texas past year. 

House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., erstwhile praised the nonprofit successful a video connection successful which helium spoke astir catastrophe relief. 

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Authorities successful Arizona are inactive searching for clues successful the Nancy Guthrie case. The 84-year-old was past seen astatine her Tucson location connected Jan. 31.  (Getty Images)

The probe into Guthrie's disappearance has entered its 4th week and the whereabouts of the 84-year-old stay unknown. In addition, nary arrests person been made. 

"Volunteer organizations sometimes aren't needfully looked astatine arsenic a viable resource," Gill said, noting that immoderate groups whitethorn deficiency acquisition successful missing persons searches. 

The UCN reached retired to the sheriff's bureau soon aft Guthrie went missing, Gill said. The connection was prompted, successful part, by the despair of Guthrie's family, including her daughter, NBC "Today" co-host Savannah Guthrie. 

A Pima County Sheriff's lawman retrieves the message from the Guthrie mailbox extracurricular Nancy Guthrie's location successful Catalina Foothills, connected Feb. 11, 2026. (Patrick Breen/The Republic / USA Today Network via Imagn Images)

"To spot Savannah Guthrie successful tears, breaking down, I tin lone ideate if that was my household member," Gill said. "Knowing that somebody's household subordinate is retired determination for specified a agelong time, we privation to help." 

Earlier this month, Savannah Guthrie’s husband, Mike Feldman, visited "Today" connected behalf of his woman to amusement appreciation for the enactment the household has received, a root told Fox News Digital. 

Feldman has been traveling backmost and distant from New York to Arizona, wherever Savannah is with her family, arsenic the hunt for her parent continues.

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On Tuesday, she posted a video connected Instagram wherever she pleaded for her mother's kidnappers to instrumentality her for a $1 cardinal reward. 

"We inactive judge successful a miracle. We inactive judge that she tin travel home," an affectional Savannah Guthrie said. "We besides cognize that she whitethorn beryllium lost. She whitethorn already beryllium gone."

"If this is what is to be, past we volition judge it," she added. "Someone retired determination knows something."

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