Pima County Sheriff stonewalled U.S. Navy after it offered to help in Nancy Guthrie case? New details emerge

Sgt. Aaron Cross, president of the Pima County Representatives Organization, said he hopes Nanos accepts help. “More body is always better than less,” Cross said.

In the search for Nancy, four detectives and one sergeant from the Pima County Sheriff’s Office have been assigned to a joint task force with the FBI operating out of the department’s Tucson field office.

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“Everyone is hoping we have some hot leads and the entire department is working hard to try to get this resolved as quickly as possible. So, I mean, we’re reducing manpower and it’s hard to say what kind of signal that sends,” Cross said.

Cross previously acknowledged that there was some friction between local police and the FBI.

“I know there were issues between the sheriff and the FBI early on, but now that they’re putting together a task force, is that positive? I hope so. I hope it’s a more collaborative effort with federal agencies,” he said.

“There was some talk and discussion that the police on the scene simply discarded [the gloves]which couldn’t be further from the truth,” Nanos said.

“We knew then and we believed wholeheartedly that these gloves belonged to a restaurant, and guess what? We found out that the owner of the gloves worked at a restaurant across the street. It had nothing to do with the case,” he added.

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However, Nanos also explained that other gloves found near the home may have had different DNA matches.

“It’s a challenge because we know we have DNA, but now we have to deal with this mixture and how to separate it,” Nanos said.

The sheriff recently said authorities are “definitely closer” to tracking down a suspect in the case.

“I think investigators are definitely closer,” Nanos said in an interview with NBC. “We’ve got a lot of intelligence, a lot of leads, but now it’s time to get to work.”