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SoCal man pleads guilty to making fake Nancy Guthrie ransom demand
ABC7 Los Angeles • • nation
Key Points:
- Derrick Callella, a Los Angeles County man, pleaded guilty to two counts of telephonic harassment for making a fake ransom demand related to the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie.
- Callella sent two text messages and made a phone call to the Guthrie family shortly after Nancy Guthrie went missing, according to federal prosecutors.
- His plea deal includes five years of probation on each count, to be served concurrently, and he has been ordered into residential drug treatment; sentencing is scheduled for September.
- Nancy Guthrie, mother of "Today" show host Savannah Guthrie, disappeared from her Tucson-area home on February 1, with FBI releasing footage of a masked stranger and finding blood on her porch; the case remains unsolved.
- Savannah Guthrie made a public emotional appeal for information, expressing the family's ongoing anguish and determination to find her mother.
