"Fox News's Bill Melugin reported Thursday that the texts allegedly sent by Derrick Callella were to see if the family would respond. Melugin added, His text messages are *not* believed to be connected to the ransom demand. Melugin retweeted the criminal complaint, writing, Feds say he tried to use a VOIP app which they were able to quickly get around via an emergency disclosure request to their mobile carrier, then they found his IP address and linked it to his California address."
"The complaint states that Callella sent the text on or about Feb. 4 with intent to abuse, threaten, or or harass any specific person. According to The New York Post, Callella, who is in his mid-forties, texted Guthrie's daughter, Annie, and son-in-law, Tommaso Cioni about the missing elderly woman on Wednesday, according to the complaint filed in Arizona federal court. One of his alleged messages read, Did you get the bitcoin were [sic] waiting on our end for the transaction."
A Los Angeles man, Derrick Callella, was arrested after allegedly sending texts to Nancy Guthrie's family demanding a bitcoin ransom. The complaint alleges a message on or about Feb. 4 was sent with intent to abuse, threaten, or harass a specific person and included a demand about receiving bitcoin for a transaction. Investigators used an emergency disclosure request to a mobile carrier to bypass a VOIP app, obtain an IP address, and link that address to a California residence. The FBI announced an arrest connected to a purported fake ransom letter and warned that impostors seeking profit will be investigated. Savannah Guthrie and her siblings released a video pleading for their missing 84-year-old mother's safe return.
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