Arizona’s Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos rejected reports that he is blocking the FBI from key evidence in the Nancy Guthrie investigation, calling the claim “not even close to the truth”.
The alleged dispute, reported by Reuters, which cited an unnamed U.S. law enforcement official, centers on gloves and DNA that Nanos wanted sent to a private Florida lab for analysis instead of the FBI’s national crime laboratory in Quantico, Virginia.
“Actually, the FBI just wanted to send the one or two [gloves] they found by the crime scene, closest to it–mile, mile and a half,” Nanos told News 4 Tucson.
“I said ‘No, why do that? Let’s just send them all to where all the DNA exist, all the profiles and the markers exist.’ They agreed, makes sense.”
Nanos said “quite a number” of gloves had been recovered in searches during the investigation, but cautioned: “We don’t even know the true value of these gloves.”
Nancy Guthrie is the 84-year-old mother of NBC Today show co-anchor Savannah Guthrie. She has been missing for nearly two weeks.
The disappearance and search have since sparked nationwide attention. Nanos has said items at the scene indicated Nancy did not leave her home “on her own.”
The FBI announced on Thursday that it is doubling the reward to $100,000 for information leading to Guthrie’s location and/or the arrest and conviction of anyone involved in her disappearance.
The bureau also released an updated description of the “suspect” seen in doorbell camera footage outside Guthrie’s home.
“The suspect is described as a male, approximately 5’9” – 5’10” tall, with an average build. In the video, he is wearing a black, 25-liter ‘Ozark Trail Hiker Pack’ backpack,” the FBI said in its X post in part.
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