A YouTuber was arrested, for the second time in a week, while live-streaming outside of the Nancy Guthrie house on Thursday evening.
At around 5:45 p.m., Alexander Zabel Jr., 54, who runs the channel CriminalNetwork, was taken into custody by Pima County Sheriff's Department deputies, roughly an hour after he was dropped off outside her house, his livestream video showed.
Zabel was sitting along the side of the road when two deputies approached him and asked him to stand up. The deputies then told him he was under arrest, the video showed.
Zabel struggled as the deputies tried to handcuff him, and one deputy fell to the ground, the video showed.
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While being taken to a deputy's vehicle, Zabel continued to yell and ask what he was being arrested for, to which the deputies did not respond.
A screenshot of the live stream of the arrest Thursday evening.
"You guys, get someone out here to get my stuff, Zabel said to his audience once he was in handcuffs. "I don't want them taking my shit."
As Zabel yelled at a third deputy who showed up, the deputy told him not to spit or he would "catch a charge."
As they were putting him in the patrol vehicle, which was out of frame, Zabel called a deputy a homophobic slur.
Later Thursday night, the Sheriff's Department said in a news release that it had received several complaints about Zabel's behavior.
During the arrest process, a PCSD sergeant was knocked to the ground, the news release said.
Zabel was booked into the Pima County jail. He is facing charges of resisting arrest, a felony, and public nuisance, a misdemeanor, the department said.
He was previously arrested on Monday on suspicion of obstruction of a highway or thoroughfare and public nuisance along with two other YouTubers, according to the Sheriff's Department.
Guthrie, 84, a retired University of Arizona communications professional and the mother of NBC "Today" host Savannah Guthrie, went missing from her home in the Catalina Foothills, near East River Road and North Sunrise Drive, on Feb. 1.
The Sheriff's Department said earlier this week that there would be stricter enforcement in the Guthrie neighborhood due to complaints from residents.
