Gloves found near Nancy Guthrie's home belonged to restaurant worker, have no connection to the case

DNA from gloves found about 2 miles away from Nancy Gunthrie's Arizona home was traced back to a local restaurant worker who has no connection to the investigation, the Pima County Sheriff's Department said Wednesday.  In:

DNA from gloves found about 2 miles away from Nancy Gunthrie's Arizona home was traced back to a local restaurant worker who has no connection to the investigation, the Pima County Sheriff's Department said Wednesday. 

"Sheriff [Chris] Nanos stated in a recent interview that the black gloves found approximately 2 miles away from Nancy Guthrie's home were traced back via DNA analysis to a person who works at a restaurant in the area. That person is not considered part of this investigation," a department spokesperson told CBS News in a statement. "Lab analysis remains underway on other DNA evidence." 

A black glove was found near Nancy Guthrie's home on Feb. 11, and days later, the Pima County Sheriff's Department said a DNA profile from the gloves that were submitted to a national database maintained by the FBI didn't come back with any matches. The FBI said at the time that the suspect seen in the doorbell camera video appeared to be wearing similar gloves.

The DNA profile had been submitted to the database known as CoDIS, or Combined DNA Index System, the sheriff's department said. The national database maintained by the FBI could have provided a match if the individual had a previous arrest for certain crimes and supplied a DNA sample that put him into the system.

The glove was found in a field near a roadside and was one of approximately 16 gloves collected by investigators in various areas near the house, but most of those other gloves belonged to searchers who discarded them while working the area, the FBI has said.