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TUCSON, Ariz. — Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance has raised questions about her potential crossing into Mexico, but experts believe this scenario is unlikely due to stringent border security measures. These enhancements have significantly lowered the odds, according to a specialist in the field.
The border wall near Nogales, Arizona, located about 60 miles from Guthrie’s hometown of Tucson, stands tall with extensive barbed wire fencing stretching for miles past the city in both directions. Retired NYPD Lieutenant Darrin Porcher highlighted these formidable barriers.
“Considering the structure and alignment of the border wall, crossing from the United States into Mexico is extremely challenging due to the lack of porous areas,” Porcher explained to Fox News Digital while standing at the Nogales border crossing, which links Nogales, Ariz., to Nogales, Sonora, Mexico.
The investigation into Nancy Guthrie’s mysterious disappearance continues as it enters its third week.
Porcher further pointed out the presence of surveillance cameras along the border, as well as U.S. Border Patrol agents stationed in vehicles at intervals of just a few hundred yards in certain locations.
Authorities have said there is no evidence that Guthrie, 84, was taken across the southern border, but experts have noted the federal protocols automatically come into play regarding her alleged kidnapping.
Despite the logistical problems of taking a captive across the border, Porcher said law enforcement should have immediately begun looking into the possibility, given Mexico’s proximity to Guthrie’s home.
“I believe this is something that law enforcement should have attached too immediately within the first 72 hours, because it seems as if they were coming into a brick wall and not gaining any solutions as it relates to a kidnapping occurring,” he said.
Experts have said that it remains unlikely that Nancy Guthrie was taken to Mexico in a cross-border abduction. (Fox News Digital; Getty Images)
“This is a point of contention that should have been addressed early on in the investigation,” he added.
Mexican authorities in Sonora have disputed claims that the FBI has asked them for help in the search for Guthrie , who was last seen at her home in the Catalina Foothills, Ariz., the unincorporated community where Nancy Guthrie’s home is located.
The office of Sonora Attorney General Gustavo Rómulo Salas Chávez wrote on the social platform X in Spanish that “it has not received a formal request for collaboration in the case of a missing person in Arizona,” referring to Guthrie.
“To date, this institution has not received any formal request for collaboration, assistance, or exchange of information from U.S. authorities or Mexican federal agencies in relation to said case,” Chávez’s office added.
Pima County Chris Nanos has said that investigators have had any indication that Guthrie was taken across the border.
“We know where Mexico is in relationship to this, and it’s a possibility. But no, we have nothing to indicate that,” he previously said.