PIMA County Sheriff’s Office, the same department in charge of the Nancy Guthrie case, was slammed with another scandal this week.
The office has been under fire for its handling of the Guthrie case since the Today Show co-host’s mother went missing almost two months ago, with .
The 22-year-old attended court this weekCredit: KOMO
The Guthrie case has reached the over 50-day markCredit: Getty
Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos has come under fire due to the caseCredit: Reuters
Now, the : a former Pima County Sheriff’s deputy was arrested and charged with one count of kidnapping.
Travis Reynolds, a 22-year-old former sheriff’s deputy, was hit with the charge after the agency says the alleged crime happened while he was at work.
“The Tucson Police Department did arrest 22-year-old Travis Reynolds, a former Pima County Sheriff’s deputy, and charged him with one count of kidnapping in connection with alleged misconduct that reportedly occurred while he was on duty,” the Tucson Police Department said in a statement, according to Fox News .
The sheriff’s office was notified “of the arrest, and the employee was terminated,” the agency said.
“We don’t have any additional information to provide.”
The complaint said that Reynolds was transporting a woman to jail, and called her “hot,” according to KOLD , who reviewed the complaint.
He claimed he “could help with her case,” and vaped with her while she was handcuffed, the outlet wrote.
Reynolds then allegedly “explained he would not go to court.”
“He also stated they could go to a hotel and have sex.”
He then allegedly showed her sexually explicit clips, and when she asked to go inside the jail, he said no, KOLD wrote.
“She had never been arrested before and did not know the procedural steps, and was unsure what was taking so long.”
“She said she saw multiple officers coming and going with their arrestees, and she was wondering why she was still in the vehicle.”
The victim says he allegedly told her to show him her breasts, and when she showed him her bra, he “removed her from the vehicle and brought her inside the jail.”
Security camera footage from the Pima County Jail matched up with parts of the account, the outlet wrote.
Reynolds then said “he may or may not have been involved in showing her a video of sexual acts. He also stated he may or may not have been involved in the discussion of having sex at a hotel,” according to the complaint.
Just weeks ago, the office was hit with a $1 million suit from an inmate.
Savannah Guthrie’s mom, Nancy, went missing on February 1, with little clues in her case revealed since.
What we know about Nancy Guthrie's disappearance
- Today host after she was abducted from her home Tucson, Arizona on February 1
- was released showing a masked intruder outside Nancy’s home the night she vanished, and he’s been deemed a suspect
- Cops at the scene, and they are analyzing it at a lab
- Nancy’s son-in-law was the last person to see her, but he and the rest of the family have been ruled out as suspects
- Multiple news outlets have been that contain specific details about
- However, at with no movement, and it’s unclear whether the authors were the kidnappers
- A and has been detained in connection to Nancy’s disappearance, but they’ve all been released and no arrests have been made
A ransom note became public after her disappearance, of dollars in Bitcoin.
Savannah has publicly pleaded for anyone with information to come forward in the weeks since, to no avail.
Chris Nanos, the Pima County Sheriff, has faced to find Savannah’s mother, a case that has now caught national attention.
Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos has had multiple scandals since Nancy Guthrie went missing in early FebruraryCredit: Reuters
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