California man accused of sending phony ransom texts to Savannah Guthrie’s family about her missing mother has been arrested and charged, according to a criminal complaint filed Thursday.
Derrick Callella, who is in his mid-forties, messaged Guthrie’s daughter, Annie, and son-in-law, Tommaso Cioni about the ailing 84-year-old on Wednesday, according to the complaint filed in Arizona federal court.
Approximately three minutes after sending the texts, data obtained by authorities showed Callella also made a nine-second-long call to an unidentified family member of Nancy Guthrie, according to the court docs, which didn’t name the relative he allegedly called.
