By EMMA JAMES IN TUSCON, ARIZONA andDANA KENNEDY, SENIOR INVESTIGATIVE REPORTERandGREG WOODFIELD, US SENIOR REPORTER
Published:14:51 EST, 20 February 2026|Updated:15:12 EST, 20 February 2026
Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos has 'locked down' theNancy Guthrieinvestigation amid escalating tensions between his team and theFBIthat have reached the boiling point, the Daily Mail can reveal.
Several sources say that Nanos is now insisting that only he and two of his highest-ranking inner circle will make decisions regarding the case of themissing 84-year-old.
Several PCSD sources confirmed to the Daily Mail that justthree decision makersare leadingthe department's investigation: Sheriff Nanos, Chief Jesus Lopez and Captain Juan Carlos Navarro.
'He will only let himself or two of his handpicked staffers make decisions on the case,' one law enforcement source told the Daily Mail.
'Everybody else is being told what to do, no one else has a say so or an opinion. It's just three men making the decisions.
'It's incredibly unusual to do that, when you have so many people working together and the FBI are involved.
'All the other detectives are out there busting their butts and doing all they can, but those three people are making the ultimate decisions after everyone reports back to them.
'It's limited to the thought processes of three men. They're keeping everything from the FBI – they just aren't sharing.
Source: Drudge Report
