FBI in touch with Mexico about Nancy Guthrie's disappearance, sources say

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The FBI has been successful interaction with the Mexican authorities and Mexican instrumentality enforcement regarding the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie, instrumentality enforcement sources told CBS News.

The FBI maintains dedicated borderline liaison agents stationed on the borderline who enactment straight with their Mexican instrumentality enforcement counterparts connected these kinds of situations.

The FBI's ineligible attaché bureau successful Mexico City serves arsenic the span betwixt FBI headquarters, the U.S. Embassy and Mexico's national lawyer general's office.

One root told CBS News the FBI suboffice astir applicable to the Guthrie lawsuit is successful Hermosillo, Sonora, the Mexican authorities that shares a borderline with Arizona. Tucson is astir 60 miles from the Nogales crossing.

Hermosillo is astir 170 miles connected the different broadside of the border. When thing happens successful this geographic corridor, that is the suboffice that gets the call.

Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos has said there's nary denotation Guthrie was taken into Mexico, but that doesn't needfully mean that an probe successful the country has not been launched.

One root said borderline protocols are already successful spot for situations similar this whether oregon not determination is simply a confirmed lead.

Meanwhile, the section enactment Madres Buscadoras De Sonora (Searching Mothers of Sonora) told CBS News they were contacted by a Guthrie household subordinate and asked to assistance successful the search. The organization, which is good known successful Sonora, posted a message connected societal media asking for accusation astir Guthrie's whereabouts.

A reward from the 88-CRIME tipline was accrued connected Wednesday to $102,500 — acknowledgment to a $100,000 anonymous donation, the enactment said — for accusation starring to the apprehension of the idiosyncratic oregon persons progressive successful Guthrie's disappearance. That reward is successful summation to a $100,000 reward the FBI is offering.

Anna Schecter contributed to this report.

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