The sheriff overseeing the investigation into Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance has acknowledged, through his attorney, that he resigned from the El Paso Police Department more than four decades ago to avoid disciplinary action. The admission raises fresh questions about his credibility at a moment when public trust in his leadership is already fracturing.
Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos left the El Paso department in 1982 to sidestep a three-day suspension for insubordination, his lawyer James Cool confirmed in a statement reported by Fox News. The concession came after Nanos had previously testified under oath that he had never been suspended as a law enforcement officer.
Cool attempted to thread the needle on the contradiction. He stated that Nanos “did not understand the question related to discipline with a different agency” and emphasized the distance in time between the El Paso episode and the present day…