Before Nancy Guthrie’s high-profile kidnapping, the Pima County Sheriff’s Department was involved in a literal drama.
Emails from 2025 reveal that the office provided access to arrest footage showing the use of force in the Desert of the Law documentary on A&E.
The explosive 220 pages highlight the close collaboration between representatives of the department and the series producers.
In this partnership, the producers, after their request was accepted, tagged along with the police and even staged scenes for the documentary.
Not to mention, Pima County Sheriff’s officials were reportedly told to notify Desert Law producers whenever a major incident occurred.
Such access set off alarm bells inside the department, Fox News reported, before adding explosive details.
Then a producer published an email requesting several units contact the sergeant; He was told that all the senior level officers had been replaced last year.
Enter Nancy Guthrie
She disappeared months after shooting on Desert Law ended. Yet, after nearly three months, no suspects have yet been captured in Guthrie’s presumed kidnapping, casting doubt on the Pima County Sheriff’s Department, whose homicide and cold case units have had to undergo “rotating reassignment” of officers.
And here’s the twist: The major leadership had been quietly shuffled just months before Nancy Guthrie, the 84-year-old mother of TODAY star Savannah Guthrie, mysteriously disappeared.
