Nanos: Fruit of a Poison Tree — Career Built on Fraud?
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Tony Brueski
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🗓️ 27 March 2026
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Pima County Supervisor Matt Heinz — a fellow Democrat — used three words to describe Sheriff Chris Nanos's 42-year career in Pima County: fruit of a poison tree. The argument is straightforward and damning. If Nanos omitted a forced resignation and eight suspensions from his 1984 Pima County job application — and the records now suggest he did — then the career built on that application was compromised from the start. Everything above it is tainted.
His deputies agree. Two hundred and forty-one voted no confidence. Zero voted to continue. The Pima County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to invoke a state statute requiring Nanos to submit sworn statements or face removal. And a December deposition — in which Nanos was asked under oath whether he'd ever been suspended and said no — is now at the center of a public question about whether his answer was truthful.
Nanos says he interpreted the question as applying only to his Pima County career. His El Paso file — obtained by the Arizona Republic — shows eight suspensions totaling thirty-seven days, a suspect who ended up in the intensive care unit, a grand jury, and a resignation submitted in lieu of termination.
He's said he'll comply with the board's order. Whether that compliance is enough to keep him in office — or whether it simply closes the door on the only removal mechanism currently available — is what county attorneys are working to determine right now.
Nancy Guthrie is still missing. The full picture, laid out plainly, is here.
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| 1:00.7 | This is Hidden Killers with Tony Brewski. Here now, Tony Bruceky. 241 to 0. |
| 1:11.6 | How'd you like to play that game? |
| 1:17.4 | How'd you like to be the one sitting at zero when 241 votes have been cast against you? |
| 1:26.7 | It's not a close vote. It's not a close vote. |
| 1:28.8 | It's not a divided department. |
| 1:34.2 | When the Pima County Deputy's Organization put the question to its membership, |
| 1:39.8 | confidence or no confidence in Sheriff Chris Nanos, |
| 1:43.0 | every member who cast a ballot voted no |
| 1:46.3 | confidence and resign and resign not just we don't like you go do what you will with this |
| 1:56.5 | information because clearly you haven't the last time we voted now we're're going to put it out there, no confidence, and resign. |
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