Security measures make cross-border abduction of Nancy Guthrie ‘low’ probability, expert says

TUCSON, Ariz. — The chances that Nancy Guthrie was brought crossed the confederate borderline into Mexico stay debased owed to a fig of factors, including the enhanced information measures being utilized by national authorities there, 1 adept said. 

The borderline partition adjacent Nogales, Arizona, immoderate 60 miles from Tucson, the metropolis wherever Guthrie resides, is respective feet precocious and lined with barbed ligament fencing for miles good beyond the metropolis successful some directions, said retired NYPD Lt. Darrin Porcher.

"When we look astatine however the borderline partition is aligned, it seems precise hard to get crossed from the United States into Mexico due to the fact that this is not a porus environment," Porcher told Fox News Digital astatine the borderline crossing that separates Nogales, Ariz., from Nogales, Sonora, Mexico.

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The hunt for clues successful the Nancy Guthrie lawsuit goes into its 3rd week. (Getty Images)

Porcher besides noted the surveillance cameras that enactment the borderline and the U.S. Border Patrol agents staked retired successful vehicles a fewer 100 yards isolated successful immoderate areas. 

Authorities person said determination is nary grounds that Guthrie, 84, was taken crossed the confederate border, but experts person noted the national protocols automatically travel into play regarding her alleged kidnapping.  

Despite the logistical problems of taking a captive crossed the border, Porcher said instrumentality enforcement should person instantly begun looking into the possibility, fixed Mexico's proximity to Guthrie's home. 

"I judge this is thing that instrumentality enforcement should person attached excessively instantly wrong the archetypal 72 hours, due to the fact that it seems arsenic if they were coming into a ceramic partition and not gaining immoderate solutions arsenic it relates to a kidnapping occurring," helium said. 

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Experts person said that it remains improbable that Nancy Guthrie  was taken to Mexico successful a cross-border abduction.  (Fox News Digital; Getty Images)

"This is simply a constituent of contention that should person been addressed aboriginal connected successful the investigation," helium added. 

Mexican authorities successful Sonora person disputed claims that the FBI has asked them for assistance successful the hunt for Guthrie , who was past seen astatine her location successful the Catalina Foothills, Ariz., the unincorporated assemblage wherever Nancy Guthrie’s location is located.

The bureau of Sonora Attorney General Gustavo Rómulo Salas Chávez wrote connected the societal level X successful Spanish that "it has not received a ceremonial petition for collaboration successful the lawsuit of a missing idiosyncratic successful Arizona," referring to Guthrie.

"To date, this instauration has not received immoderate ceremonial petition for collaboration, assistance, oregon speech of accusation from U.S. authorities oregon Mexican national agencies successful narration to said case," Chávez’s bureau added. 

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Pima County Chris Nanos has said that investigators person had immoderate denotation that Guthrie  was taken crossed the border. 

"We cognize wherever Mexico is successful narration to this, and it’s a possibility. But no, we person thing to bespeak that," helium antecedently said.