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The embattled Pima County Sheriff\u2019s Department turned down an offer from a volunteer search team to help find Nancy Guthrie, the baffled leader of the group claimed.<\/p>\n

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Brian Trascher, vice president of volunteer search-and-rescue group the United Cajun Navy, said his team was willing and able to help provide \u201csome closure\u201d in the search for the 84-year-old matriarch \u2013 who vanished in February from her Tucson, Arizona, home.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have a lot of good resources we could have brought to the area,\u201d Trascher told News Nation. \u201cOther partner groups that we work with in the area are willing to come to the area and help us search.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe really felt strongly that there was a good chance that she could have ended up somewhere along the border.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s unclear when exactly Trascher offered to help. But he said his proposal \u2013 which would have included K-9s and drone teams searching the expanse of the Southwest \u2013 was ignored by local authorities.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cFor some reason, they just decided they were not going to take the outside help. So we just kind of went back to what we\u2019re doing,\u201d Trascher told the outlet.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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He told News Nation that this was the result of a broader decision by the Pima County Sheriff\u2019s Office not to accept outside help in the search for the missing octogenarian.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The sheriff\u2019s office did not respond for comment.<\/p>\n

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The revelation of the eyebrow-raising decision is the latest in a series of controversies surrounding the months-long search for Nancy Guthrie.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Sheriff Chris Nanos has been blasted for his handling of the Guthrie case, with many saying the lawman blew leads that could have led to her rescue.<\/p>\n

Critics also blasted the sheriff\u2019s department for relinquishing the Guthrie home only days after Nancy\u2019s disappearance, as well as for handing DNA from the scene over to a private lab \u2014 even though the FBI could\u2019ve tested it faster.<\/p>\n

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