TUCSON, Ariz. — The Arizona sheriff leading the investigation into the suspected abduction of Nancy Guthrie is facing calls from two members of his county’s five-person board of supervisors to step down amid allegations that he lied about his past record as a Texas cop before joining his department in the 1980s.
Guthrie is the 84-year-old mother of “Today” co-host Savannah Guthrie, and her unsolved kidnapping has drawn national attention to Pima County in Arizona, where Sheriff Chris Nanos is three months into a search for her while fending off lawsuits from current and former members of his own department and trading barbs with the FBI.
“This is accountability for a guy who has evaded accountability for decades and is himself a public safety threat,” said Dr. Matt Heinz, a member of the Pima County Board of Supervisors…