An Arizona county assessor has revealed she was admonished by the sheriff overseeing the investigation into Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance after her office forwarded a tip to the FBI, according to a recent report.
Nancy Guthrie, the 84-year-old mother of Savannah Guthrie, co-host of “Today,” is suspected to have been kidnapped from her Catalina Foothills home on February 1st.
Suzanne Droubie, the official in question, informed the Arizona Republic that the sheriff expressed displeasure after her office, which handles property records in Pima County, sent information to federal authorities.
Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos, speaking at the Pima County Sheriff’s Department in Tucson, Arizona, on May 8, 2026, mentioned that investigators are making progress in the case of Nancy Guthrie’s abduction. Guthrie is the 84-year-old mother of “Today” co-host Savannah Guthrie. (Photo by Matt Symons for Fox News Digital)
“It was suggested that by sending this information to the FBI, we were causing additional work for the sheriff’s department, as they were then tasked with following up on all the leads provided,” Droubie shared with the publication.
Droubie was out of office Tuesday and could not immediately be reached by Fox News Digital.
A split image shows Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos speaking to reporters about the suspected abduction of Nancy Guthrie, alongside an image of Guthrie seated during a game of mahjong. (Rebecca Noble/Reuters, Courtesy of NBC)
She did not discuss specifics about the tip in the interview but said the FBI had requested information, which her staff provided. Then she had a tense conversation with the sheriff.
“It seemed like he was very stressed, very frustrated,” Droubie told the paper. “I wouldn’t categorize it as yelling, per se, as much as kind of scolding and expressing frustration with all of the leads he was receiving, their obligation to follow up on them, and that my office was, was actually being more harm than good by providing more leads that they just had to follow up with.”
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A Pima County sheriff’s official stands outside Nancy Guthrie’s home in Tucson, Ariz., on Feb. 14, 2026. (Ty O’Neil/AP Photo)
A spokesperson for the Pima County Sheriff’s Department said she could not comment.
“We are not authorized to provide any information or comment regarding these claims,” she wrote in an email.
Last week, the sheriff and FBI Director Kash Patel traded barbs over each other’s handling of the case. There has been tension since early on, when the FBI wanted to send DNA evidence to its lab in Quantico and the sheriff sent it to a contracted lab in Florida instead.
Pima County deputies examine a flyer taped to the mailbox outside Nancy Guthrie’s home in Tucson, Ariz., on Feb. 23, 2026. Guthrie, the 84-year-old mother of “Today” co-host Savannah Guthrie, is believed to have been abducted from her home in the early hours of Feb. 1. (Michael Ruiz/Fox News Digital)
Eleven weeks later, the Florida lab sent the sample over to the FBI for more advanced testing. It’s now been more than 14 weeks since Guthrie’s suspected abduction.
Separately, the Pima County Board of Supervisors is expected to address concerns about unrelated allegations of perjury against Nanos at tonight’s meeting. Two supervisors, Dr. Matt Heinz and Steve Christy, told Fox News Digital last week they plan to move to vacate the sheriff’s office under a rarely invoked state law.
“I will make, second and/or support any motion or efforts to vacate,” Christy reiterated Tuesday morning, 100 days after Guthrie’s disappearance.
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