Lastly, an arrest within the Nancy Guthrie kidnapping, but it surely’s not one among her captors … it is a man the feds declare despatched textual content messages to Nancy’s household asking them about bitcoin … and the FBI says they do not consider the man has any connection to the ransom word.
In keeping with new authorized docs, obtained by TMZ, the feds say a Los Angeles man named Derrick Callella texted Nancy’s daughter Annie and her son-in-law Tommaso Cioni“Did you get the bitcoin have been (sic) ready on our finish for the transaction.”
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The FBI says the texts have been despatched Wednesday, shortly after ‘TODAY’ anchor Savannah Guthrie uploaded a video of her siblings making a plea to Nancy’s captors. Within the video, Savannah talked about the ransom word, begged for proof of life and stated they have been prepared to speak.
TMZ was despatched a ransom word on Tuesday that demanded hundreds of thousands of {dollars} in bitcoin in change for Nancy’s protected return and set two deadlines … we forwarded the word to legislation enforcement and now the FBI is divulging sure particulars from the word.
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To be clear … within the felony grievance in opposition to Callella, the FBI says the textual content messages he allegedly despatched Nancy’s household have NOT been linked to the ransom demand.
The feds say Callella used a digital cellphone quantity to ship the textual content messages … the FBI says the quantity he used was registered to an electronic mail account utilizing his first and final identify, and data indicated the digital cellphone quantity was accessed from an IP tackle related along with his California residence.
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Callella, in accordance with the FBI, admitted to sending the 2 textual content messages and informed investigators he pulled household data from a cyber web site and had been following the Guthrie kidnapping within the media.
The feds say Callella informed them he despatched the texts to see if the household would reply … and the FBI says knowledge exhibits that he additionally known as a Guthrie member of the family 3 minutes after sending the texts and that the decision lasted 9 seconds.
Callella is charged with two federal crimes … one depend of intent to transmit a requirement for ransom and one depend of constructing a cellphone name with out disclosing identification to abuse, threaten or harass any particular particular person.