NEW: Los Angeles Man Arrested For Sending Text Messages to Guthrie Family Asking For Bitcoin as Search Intensifies For Missing Matriarch

A Los Angeles man named Derrick Callella was arrested by the FBI for sending text messages to the Guthrie family asking for Bitcoin as the search intensifies for the missing matriarch.

The text messages are not connected to the ransom demand.

84-year-old Nancy Guthrie, mother of NBC’s “Today” show anchor Savannah Guthrie, was last seen on Saturday night.

The elder Guthrie went ‘missing’ from her Pima County, Arizona, home over the weekend and law enforcement described it as a ‘crime scene.’

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