Arizona

He knows— as we all know— that this FBI and its leadership cannot be trusted. This is probably the biggest crime case in Pima County's history and the sheriff wants to protect the investigation. After all, the whole world is watching.

The FBI, under Trump’s control, has demonstrated it is untrustworthy at best and possible criminally culpability. The sheriff probably suspects that if he turns over the evidence they’ll either spoil it making it unusable or it will just disappear.

It’s an embarrassing development that the FBI was one of the best investigatory agencies in the world but Trump has degraded it into a Keystone Kops farce.