PRESIDENT Donald Trump has revealed why the FBI hasn’t taken over the search for Nancy Guthrie as the investigation approaches the two week mark.
He confirmed the reason the federal agency was pushed to the backburner when asked about the missing 84-year-old on Friday.
On Friday, Fox News reporter Jacqui Heinrich asked Trump, “Why hasn’t the FBI taken over the Nancy Guthrie case as the lead investigator?
“Do you have any updates on how it’s going?”
Trump responded, “Well, they took it over originally. You know, it was a local case originally, and, they didn’t want to let go of it, which is fine.
“It’s up to them. It’s really up to the communities. But ultimately, when the FBI got involved, I think, you know, progress has been made.”
In the past few days, several reports have claimed the Pima County Sheriff’s Department in Tucson, Arizona, is at odds with federal authorities over the investigation.
Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos was accused of bypassing federal analysts by an anonymous FBI source who spoke with Reuters.
However, Nanos dismissed the concerns and vowed he was collaborating with other agencies to find the truth.
He responded to reports claiming that he sent DNA evidence and gloves recovered at the scene to a lab in Florida without keeping the FBI in the loop.
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“Actually, the FBI just wanted to send [to their own lab] the one or two [gloves] they found by the crime scene, closest to it, mile, mile and a half,” he told NBC affiliate KVOA.
“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.”
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