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Callella, born in 1983, is charged with two federal crimes. The first is for transmitting an interstate \u201cdemand for ransom \u2026 for the release of any kidnapped person.\u201d The second is for using a telephone to send an interstate text message and make an interstate call \u201cwithout disclosing his identity,\u201d and \u201cwith intent to abuse, threaten or harass any specific person.\u201d<\/p>\n
On Feb. 2, 2026, Kold<\/a>, the CBS<\/a> affiliate in Tucson, received a ransom demand via its online tip portal. The demand included a \u201cBitcoin wallet address to receive the ransom payment.\u201d This demand…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" California man Derrick Callella has been arrested for sending what authorities believe to be a fake ransom demand in the suspected Tucson, Arizona, kidnapping of Nancy Guthrie, the mother of Today show co-anchor Savannah Guthrie. The Pima County Sheriff\u2019s Office in Arizona and FBI are still investigating a separate ransom demand that was received two […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2270699,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2270698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/California-Man-Arrested-for-Fake-Nancy-Guthrie-Ransom-Demand.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2270698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2270698"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2270698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2270700,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2270698\/revisions\/2270700"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2270699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2270698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2270698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2270698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}