Nancy Guthrie’s family gets ransom texts; Hawthorne, California’s Derrick Callella arrested, released

Nancy Guthrie, 84, was reported missing from her residence in Catalina Foothills, Arizona, United States on February 1, 2026. Her whereabouts remain unknown.

Nancy Guthrie

On the evening of January 31, 2026, family members dropped Guthrie home. That was the last time she was seen.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation believes that Guthrie was taken against her will by a male kidnapper described as being between 5’9″ and 5’10” tall with an average build. During the incident, the individual was allegedly wearing a mask and a 25-liter Ozark Trail hiker pack.

Guthrie’s daughter Savannah Clark Guthrie was married to Mark Orchard from 2005 to 2009. In 2014, Savannah married Michael Feldman.

Since 2012, Savannah has been a co-anchor of the NBC show “Today”. On October 14, 2025, Feldman turned 57 and on December 27, 2025, Savannah turned 54.

Derrick Callella

Derrick Anthony Callella, 42, of Hawthorne, California, USA was an intermediate clerk for the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services in Los Angeles, California. He is also a resident of Torrance, California.

Between May 6, 2020 and January 20, 2022, Callella allegedly stole $9,984 in unemployment benefits amid the new coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. On July 25, 2025, he turned 42.

On October 15, 2025, Callella was charged with felony grand theft related to this scheme. His arraignment was scheduled for November 20, 2025, in Department 30 of the Foltz Criminal Justice Center in Los Angeles, where he pleaded not guilty.

On February 4, 2026, Callella sent two ransom text messages to Nancy’s family. Acting as an impostor, he used a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) program to disguise his phone number but FBI agents traced the text message to an internet protocol (IP) address linked to his residence.

On February 5, 2026, FBI agents arrested Callella in Hawthorne. According to the bureau, he admitted to sending the messages after he found information about Nancy’s family online and made a 9-second phone call to a family member.

On February 6, 2026, Callella made his first court appearance in Los Angeles. He was released on $20,000 bond.

On February 12, 2026, Callella appeared in federal court in Tucson, Arizona and was charged with transmitting a demand for ransom in interstate commerce, and without disclosing his identity, utilizing a telecommunications device with intent to abuse, threaten or harass a person. He was released with pre-trial restrictions.

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🔔#Earthquake (#sismo) M2.2 strikes 11 mi N of #Hawthorne (#Nevada) 3 min ago. More info: https://m.emsc.eu/?id=1939576

Academia.edu emailed me today asking, "Cindy Weinstein ✏️ Did you write "The Scarlet Letter"? The absurdity, idiocy, and utter inaccuracy of this cracks me up (and worries me a little for sure). Would that it were true, but I only wrote the introduction to the Oxford Classics edition.

#Hawthorne
#humanities
#books

The four members of NASA's SpaceX Crew-12 mission to the International Space Station 🧑‍🚀

#California #Crew12 #EuropeanSpaceAgency #Hawthorne #InternationalSpaceStation #NASA #Roscosmos #SpaceX

⏩ 2 new pictures from NASA (Image Library) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:ListFiles?limit=2&user=OptimusPrimeBot&ilshowall=1&offset=20260129011009

🔔#Earthquake (#sismo) M2.2 strikes 10 mi N of #Hawthorne (#Nevada) 3 min ago. More info: https://m.emsc.eu/?id=1936254

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I didn’t do much today, either.

But I did discover some awesome country music courtesy of lovely friends on Facebook and I took a long nap and cuddled with Moonie and Véra. I also called Autumn and Hawthorne.

All of the socializing took a lot out of me, but I had a great time. I want to call Delta soon..

-Allēna

🔔#Earthquake (#sismo) M2.0 strikes 49 mi SE of #Hawthorne (#Nevada) 3 min ago. More info: https://m.emsc.eu/?id=1925797

Gundo tech scene: Overview of the Los Angeles aerospace startups, rooted in SpaceX but with a history going back much longer
https://www.economist.com/christmas-specials/2025/12/18/americas-fight-back-against-china-starts-in-los-angeles-in-flip-flops
#losangeles #elsegundo #hawthorne #aerospace #startups #gundo

🔔#Earthquake (#sismo) M2.1 strikes 5 mi E of #Hawthorne (#Nevada) 3 min ago. More info: https://m.emsc.eu/?id=1923712

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Russian cosmonaut disqualified from SpaceX mission due to irregularities
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"Oleg Artemyev has been removed from SpaceX's Crew-12 mission after a safety incident during training."

"According to The Insider, the cosmonaut photographed and took away classified technical documents and materials, thus violating US regulations on export control."

https://www.notizie.it/en/Russian-cosmonaut-excluded-from-SpaceX-mission-due-to-irregularities/

3.12.2025

#Crew12 #Hawthorne #ISS #ITAR #NASA #OlegArtemyev #Raumfahrt #Roscosmos #Russland #SpaceFlight #SpaceX #USA

Aviation weather for Jack Northrop Field Hawthorne Municipal airport (USA) is “KHHR 301953Z 25006KT 6SM HZ FEW021 17/11 A2999 RMK AO2 SLP156 T01720111 $” : See what it means on https://www.bigorre.org/aero/meteo/khhr/en #jacknorthropfieldhawthornemunicipalairport #airport #hawthorne #usa #khhr #hhr #metar #aviation #aviationweather #avgeek vl

Today in Labor History November 29, 1832: Louisa May Alcott, author, nurse, feminist and abolitionist, was born. Her writing was influenced by the transcendentalists, like Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne and Longfellow, whom she knew personally. While she was most famous for her book, “Little Women,” she also wrote “Work,” an autobiographical novel that exposed the exploitation of women workers. Poverty forced her to work at a young age as a teacher, seamstress, governess and domestic. During the Civil War, she worked as a nurse and developed typhoid fever. The medicine she took contained mercury, which may have contributed to the autoimmune disorders that plagued her for the rest of her life and that ultimately killed her. She is buried on Author’s Ridge, at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, in Concord, near Emerson, Thoreau and Hawthorne.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #louisamayalcott #feminism #slavery #Abolition #nurse #teacher #poverty #exploitation #thoreau #hawthorne #longfellow #emerson #civilwar #books #literature #fiction #writer #author @bookstadon

Aviation weather for Jack Northrop Field Hawthorne Municipal airport (USA) is “KHHR 261853Z AUTO VRB03KT 10SM CLR 26/01 A3009 RMK AO2 SLP187 T02560006” : See what it means on https://www.bigorre.org/aero/meteo/khhr/en #jacknorthropfieldhawthornemunicipalairport #airport #hawthorne #usa #khhr #hhr #metar #aviation #aviationweather #avgeek vl

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#SouthernCalifornia residents stunned to hear a #BayArea tech company had acquired their local municipal owned #airport from city without any advance knowledge.

A press release was first indicator that the #Municipal Airport in #BeachBoys hometown of #Hawthorne, a facility owned by the city, had been quietly transferred without any performative citizen approval for $126 million to a private firm expecting to make big money on #Olympics related private jet flights etc

https://www.sfgate.com/travel/article/bay-area-tech-company-purchases-la-airport-ahead-21156350.php #SunshineLaws #Taxpayers #Commerce #AirTravel

#3GoodThings (the Nathaniel #Hawthorne edition)

1. We were discussing "The Artist of the Beautiful" & a student mentioned limerence, a word I'd never heard of but sure fit the story.

2. In our class about "The Minister's Black Veil," we went over how the minister's sin is the egotism that won't allow him to take off the veil.

3. Students linked the male protagonists of "The Birthmark" et al to Masahisa Fukase.

They are so smart & creative, & I am so lucky!

#Humanities
#CriticalThinking

So I ordered some #Hawthorne jelly from the internet to see if I was missing something, and holy shit is this stuff delicious. It actually tastes like a light and fruity chocolate.

Now I need to see if I can recreate this from the berries I got through #UrbanForaging.