{"id":467258,"date":"2026-02-14T01:02:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T01:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/467258\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T01:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T01:02:08","slug":"nanos-pushes-back-on-claims-of-withholding-evidence-in-guthrie-case-the-disappearance-of-nancy-guthrie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/467258\/","title":{"rendered":"Nanos pushes back on claims of withholding evidence in Guthrie case | The Disappearance of Nancy Guthrie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TUCSON, Ariz. (KVOA) &#8211; Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos is pushing back on claims that he is withholding crucial evidence from the FBI in the Nancy Guthrie case.<\/p>\n<p>Nanos denies the allegations, describing the report as &#8220;not even close to the truth.&#8221; He emphasized the long-standing partnership between the Pima County Sheriff&#8217;s Department and the FBI.<\/p>\n<p>This comes as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kvoa.com\/news\/nancy-guthrie\/recovered-gloves-wanted-ring-doorbell-footage-highlight-guthrie-case-latest\/article_593444a3-7643-4fb4-8821-fd8769a5d2c6.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">gloves were discovered<\/a>, amid the FBI&#8217;s expanding search efforts.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A private lab in Florida, which has worked with the sheriff&#8217;s department for years, is analyzing the DNA profiles from the crime scene and those given voluntarily pro bono, Nanos told News 4 Tucson.<\/p>\n<p>Nanos mentioned discussions with the FBI Thursday morning about possibly sending the recently discovered gloves to the Bureau\u2019s lab.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Actually the FBI just wanted to send the one or two they found by the crime scene, closest to it \u2013 mile, mile and a half . . . I said &#8216;No, why do that? Let\u2019s just send them all to where all the DNA exist, all the profiles and the markers exist.&#8217; They agreed, makes sense.&#8221; Nanos said.<\/p>\n<p>While Nanos did not specify the number of gloves recovered during the search efforts, he noted there were &#8220;quite a number of them,&#8221; adding gloves were discovered as far west as Oracle Road to as far east as Craycroft Road.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We don&#8217;t even know the true value of these gloves,&#8221; he said Thursday night.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Nanos emphasized that all decisions in the Guthrie case are being discussed with the FBI.<\/p>\n<p>Nanos stressed the current focus remains on finding Nancy Guthrie, saying &#8220;When this is all done with, offer your critiques all you want, but right now we have work to do.&#8221;\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>News 4 Tucson reached out to the FBI for comment Thursday night but has not heard back.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TUCSON, Ariz. (KVOA) &#8211; Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos is pushing back on claims that he is withholding&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":467259,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3729,209536,3,452,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":{"0":"post-467258","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-local","10":"tag-nancy-guthrie","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-united-states-of-america","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=467258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/467259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}