Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos’ Top Deputy Was Arrested for Allegedly Kidnapping Female Prisoner

Already facing a recall drive for the still unsolved kidnapping case of Savannah Guthrie’s mom, Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos is reeling from a new embarrassment — the arrest of one of his top deputies for kidnapping a female prisoner, sources tell the National Enquirer.

Travis Reynolds, 22, was busted on March 26 for wooing a woman he was transporting to county jail into a seedy sex romp at a motel in return for help with her case, the Tucson Police Department has charged.

Per KOLD 13 News, the dirty deputy allegedly told the woman she looked “hot,” gave her a hit off his vape pen, showed her X-rated videos, left her handcuffed in his vehicle for far longer than necessary, and demanded she expose her breasts.

The lustful lout has since been canned and now faces charges of kidnapping, but his bust was only the latest black eye for Nanos.

As the Enquirer reported on March 2, the 40-year department veteran has been accused of bumbling the Nancy Guthrie crime scene, dragging his feet on asking for FBI help during the crucial first days of the case, demoting the only pilot in his department to street patrol so a plane with thermal imaging cameras wasn’t available during a crucial point of the investigation, lying on his résumé about his employment with the Tucson PD, fibbing during a deposition about suspensions while at the department — and taking in a University of Arizona men’s basketball game only six days after the Feb. 1 kidnapping!

A recall effort is now underway to unseat 70-year-old Nanos, just 18 months into his four-year term.

“He has lost the faith of his deputies and the community,” Pima County Sheriff’s Sgt. Aaron Cross told the county Board of Supervisors, via the Tuscon Sentinel. “[He’s] unfit to wear the badge.”

As the world knows, Nancy, 84, was abducted from her Tucson home Feb. 1 by a masked, armed man seen on her doorbell cam. She was still missing two months later despite cops fielding some 50,000 leads and a $1 million reward posted by the Guthrie family.

Meanwhile, in a tearful TV interview, Savannah — who returned to the Today show April 6 — questioned whether her fame was the cause of her mom’s kidnapping, calling the possibility “too much to bear.”