Nancy Guthrie sheriff under pressure as petition demands access for United Cajun Navy

The United Cajun Navy, a nationally known unpaid hunt and rescue group, is offering to revise its planned hunt for Nancy Guthrie and marque immoderate changes indispensable to triumph the support of section authorities.

Meanwhile, an autarkic writer has launched a petition imploring Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos to springiness the radical his blessing.

"We privation support from the pb agency," said Josh Gill, an incidental commandant astatine UCN who was connected the crushed successful Tucson, Arizona, successful February but incapable to footwear disconnected his search. "I don't deliberation determination would beryllium immoderate harm, I deliberation it would beryllium 1 measurement person to providing immoderate closure not conscionable to the household oregon the community, but to the nation."

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Nancy Guthrie disappeared from her Tucson, Arizona location connected Sunday, Feb. 1, 2026. (Left: Michael Ruiz/Fox News Digital, Inset: NBC, Right: Fox News Digital)

Gill submitted the program to the sheriff's section successful the days aft Guthrie's suspected abduction successful the aboriginal hours of Feb. 1, hours aft she came from meal astatine her daughter's location nearby. Guthrie's different girl is "Today" co-host Savannah Guthrie.

According to the 41-page document, the UCN would person nary autarkic authorization and run nether the sheriff's command.

Read the plan:

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"We person not been contacted connected the program that we provided," Gill told Fox News Digital. "I'm unfastened to processing a caller program with instrumentality enforcement."

Fragments of surveillance video amusement a masked antheral astatine her beforehand door, wherever humor drops were recovered the pursuing morning. Her backmost doorway had been propped open. No valuables were taken. Although the household offered to wage a ransom request successful the aboriginal days of the investigation, Guthrie has not been returned.

Investigators basal successful the entranceway to the location of Nancy Guthrie successful Tucson, Ariz., Wednesday, February 25, 2026. (Kat Ramirez for Fox News Digital)

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Last week, authorities revealed that a hairsbreadth illustration was recovered wrong the location and has been sent from a backstage DNA laboratory successful Florida to the FBI for much precocious testing.

The archetypal program called for the usage of certified cadaver dogs implicit onshore successful astir section bodies of water, a tracking canine trained to find circumstantial scents, heat-detecting drones and GPS-tracked volunteers for a grid hunt from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily.

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People behaviour an unofficial hunt flr clues successful the Nancy Guthrie case, Tucson, Arizona, Sunday, February 22, 2026. Guthrie was past seen live astatine the extremity of January. (Kat Ramirez/Fox News Digital)

The program adjacent included unpaid EMTs connected standby successful lawsuit immoderate searchers suffered injuries from the terrain oregon prima and heat.

Gill said the radical had besides projected deferring each media inquiries to the Pima County Sheriff's Department.

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"We've got immoderate of the champion and brightest, and our web is huge," helium told Fox News Digital. "Let america enactment [with the sheriff's department] to bash what's best."

Savannah Guthrie visits the Today amusement astatine Rockefeller Plaza successful New York connected Thursday, March 5, 2026. (Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)

He projected searching the godforsaken extracurricular town, galore drainage ditches known arsenic "washes" successful the area, a bid of "remote entree areas" and abandoned structures. Searchers were preparing for harsh conditions including utmost heat, wildlife hazards, uneven terrain and acheronian nights owed to section ordinances designed astatine limiting airy pollution.

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According to the plan, if unpaid searchers find immoderate grounds they would not grip it and study it to the sheriff's department.

Australian-born presenter, Savannah Guthrie poses alongside her parent Nancy Guthrie during a accumulation interruption whilst hosting NBC's "Today Show" unrecorded from Australia astatine Sydney Opera House connected May 4, 2015 successful Sydney, Australia. (Don Arnold/WireImage)

UCN has submitted akin plans for different searches to instrumentality enforcement agencies astir the country.

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Cherise "Pebbles" Wilson, an autarkic writer who focuses connected missing persons and quality trafficking cases, is down a Change.org petition calling connected PCSD to judge Gill's plan.

"I mislaid my susceptible grandma a mates of years ago, and Nancy Guthrie's disappearance pulled astatine my heartstrings," she told Fox News Digital. "Knowing that idiosyncratic took vantage of a loving lady, an aged woman similar that, is truly disturbing."