India, May 13 -- Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos is under fire again as the search for Nancy Guthrie continues. A report from Stephanie Murray of AZCentral claimed that Nanos had scolded a Pima County official for sharing information with the FBI because it led to new leads which his department had to pursue in the Guthrie case.

This comes even as FBI Director Kash Patel spoke out about Nanos and his department, saying that the bureau had offered to pull out all stops to find Guthrie at the start of the case, but Nanos had refused. The sheriff had already faced flak over sending the DNA evidence in the Guthrie case to the private lab in Florida rather than the FBI lab in Quantico.

Notably, the Pima County Sheriff's Department is lead on...