Nancy Guthrie Kidnapping
FBI Contacts Mexican Regulation Enforcement …
TMZ Receives New Ransom Demand
Revealed
February 18, 2026
10:11 AM PST
The FBI has reached out to authorities in Mexico, within the hunt for Nancy Guthrie and her kidnapper, TMZ has discovered … and TMZ has acquired a brand new ransom observe.
Regulation enforcement sources concerned within the investigation inform us … the FBI has contacted Mexican federal regulation enforcement to unfold the phrase to varied police companies. We’re advised to this point there have been no strong leads.
Our sources say the FBI believes it is potential Nancy was taken throughout the border, nevertheless it’s unlikely it occurred instantly after the kidnapping. Authorities have checked Border Patrol cameras and different digital units, and so they got here up dry. That stated, our sources say it is potential Nancy might have been taken throughout the border at another time. After all, there are methods to evade authorities when crossing the border.
TMZ has obtained one other ransom observe — this one a extremely refined demand involving a cryptocurrency apart from bitcoin. The e-mail calls for a greenback quantity much like the $6 million ransom demand within the earlier electronic mail we acquired, days after the kidnapping. This electronic mail graphically describes the implications if the ransom is not paid.
The brand new ransom demand electronic mail features a crypto account quantity totally different from the unique. We’ve got forwarded the e-mail on to the FBI and won’t be extra particular.
One factor the FBI needs to clarify … anybody who tries to rip-off the Guthrie household by making faux ransom calls for is taking part in with fireplace, as a result of, as one supply places it, “They may go to federal jail for a protracted, very long time.” Primarily based on what we all know, this isn’t a hole promise.
A number of different gadgets … regulation enforcement sources say they didn’t get any leads from the gun shops the FBI contacted. As we reported, the FBI created a listing of people that bought the kind of holster the kidnapper was sporting and offered that to varied gun retailer homeowners within the Tucson space, asking if anybody with these names purchased a gun within the final 12 months. No luck.
We’re additionally advised there may be an FBI group working with Walmart and different retailers to search out who might have bought among the gadgets the kidnapper was sporting. Once more, no breakthroughs to this point.
As one regulation enforcement supply advised us, “We’re shaking the bushes” to crack the case.
