A guilty plea has now been entered in one of the ugliest side chapters of the Nancy Guthrie case. Derrick Callella, 42, of Hawthorne, California, admitted in federal court that he harassed Guthrie’s family while they were desperate for any word about her fate. Callella pleaded guilty on July 2, 2026, in Tucson federal court to two counts of Harassment Using a Telecommunication Device. Prosecutors say he contacted Nancy Guthrie’s family on February 4 about a bitcoin transfer, knowing an earlier ransom demand had already been made. He admitted he was trying to pry for information about the disappearance investigation and harass the family in the process. TUCSON, Ariz. – Derrick Callella, 42, of Hawthorne, California, pleaded guilty today to two counts of Harassment Using a Telecommunication Device. Sentencing is scheduled for September 10, 2026. @FBIPhoenix https://t.co/xJKWcZeFVR — US Attorney Arizona (@USAO_AZ) July 2, 2026 The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Arizona announced the plea and identified Callella as a California man who admitted to two federal harassment counts tied to ransom communications. According to prosecutors, Callella admitted he called and sent text messages to a missing person’s family on February 4, 2026, asking about a bitcoin transfer. He also acknowledged that he already knew an earlier ransom demand had been made. The government says his goal was to harass the family by seeking information about the disappearance investigation. Sentencing is scheduled for September 10, 2026, before U.S. District Judge John C. Hinderaker, and each count carries a maximum of two years in prison, a $250,000 fine, or both, plus one year of supervised release. The FBI Phoenix Division’s Tucson office handled the investigation, and the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Tucson is prosecuting the case. KGUN 9 reported from Tucson Federal Court that Callella’s plea deal calls for five years of probation on each count, served at the same time for five years total after Thursday’s hearing. Formal sentencing still comes in September, and the report said the court ordered Callella directly into residential drug treatment after the hearing. Federal charges said he sent two texts and made a phone call shortly after the Guthrie family posted a public message asking the kidnappers to contact them. KGUN 9 also reported the texts had no real connection to the bitcoin ransom note that media outlets received after Nancy Guthrie disappeared. The station said agents traced the hidden-number trail back to Callella anyway. Derrick Callella pleaded guilty to two counts of telephonic harassment and faces five years of probation. https://t.co/dhMlzQGSZx — KGUN 9 (@kgun9) July 2, 2026 KOLD reported that Callella had originally faced charges of transmitting a demand for ransom in interstate commerce and using a telecommunications device with intent to abuse, threaten, or harass. The local outlet reported that Callella texted Nancy Guthrie’s daughter Annie and son-in-law Tommaso Cioni, using a VOIP phone line connected to the messages. The messages came moments after the family released its first public video plea asking for proof of life from whoever had her. Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos warned that fraudulent notes slow the investigation, divert attention, and exploit the Guthrie family. His message to anyone thinking about sending another fake note was simple: law enforcement is tracing them, and arrests can follow. That is the line this plea draws. The guilty plea addresses one alleged imposter demand, while the deeper mystery remains open. AZFamily reported that the FBI has said some ransom notes in the case were illegitimate extortion attempts, while other ransom demands may still be legitimate and remain under investigation. The FBI statement came as the case reached 151 days since Guthrie was reported missing from her Catalina Foothills home in Tucson. AZFamily reported that the case is still being investigated as a kidnapping for ransom, with local authorities in the lead and the FBI continuing to assist. That keeps the ransom question active even after this guilty plea. The outlet also reported that KOLD received two ransom notes early in the search, one on February 2 and another on February 6, and that those notes were turned over to the Pima County Sheriff’s Department and the FBI. That context matters because Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance remains open. Prosecutors say Callella harassed the family around the ransom chaos, and he is not accused of taking her. The woman at the center of this case is still missing. The FBI is offering up to $100,000 for information leading to Guthrie’s location or to the arrest and conviction of anyone involved in her disappearance. The FBI says Guthrie was last seen at her Catalina Foothills residence in Tucson on the evening of January 31, 2026. She is considered a vulnerable adult who has difficulty walking, has a pacemaker, and needs daily medication for a heart condition. The FBI says an armed individual appeared to tamper with Guthrie’s front-door camera the morning she vanished. The suspect is described as a male roughly 5 feet 9 inches to 5 feet 10 inches tall, with an average build, wearing a black 25-liter Ozark Trail Hiker Pack backpack. Anyone with information can contact the FBI at 1-800-CALL-FBI or submit a tip online at tips.fbi.gov. The plea brings accountability for one cruel episode. Nancy Guthrie is still missing, and the real case is still waiting for the lead that breaks it open. This is a Guest Post from our friends over at WLTReport. View the original article here. The post BREAKING: Guilty Plea Entered In Nancy Guthrie Ransom Case appeared first on 100PercentFedUp.com.

The FBI is pouring manpower into its investigation of the 2020 election in Fulton County, Georgia, and the scale screams escalation. Field offices across the country have been ordered to send analysts to Atlanta to help dig through thousands of records tied to the county’s 2020 vote. The number attached to the effort is what makes people sit up. We are talking about hundreds of federal staffers, all pointed at one investigation. And the FBI’s own internal language calls it a priority. The FBI is ramping up its investigation into the 2020 election results in Fulton County, Georgia, by ordering field offices across the country to send investigative analysts to Atlanta to help evaluate thousands of records, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter.… — CBS News (@CBSNews) July 2, 2026 AP reported on July 2, 2026 that the FBI asked field offices nationwide to dedicate more than 200 staffers to the Fulton County probe, turning a county-level election records fight into a national manpower push. According to a memo AP obtained, the bureau is surging 260 investigative analysts and staff operations specialists into the work and describing the matter as a priority investigation. Each of those analysts is expected to check an estimated 708 records by July 17, 2026, AP reported, which puts a hard timetable on the review instead of leaving it as an open-ended inquiry. People familiar with the internal decision-making confirmed to AP that the request is tied to the Georgia 2020 election investigation, even though the memo itself did not spell that out. AP also noted that FBI agents in January seized hundreds of boxes of ballots and other documents in Fulton County, the state’s most populous county and home to most of Atlanta. CBS News reviewed a memo sent to every field office requesting surge support to Atlanta for what it called FBI Director Kash Patel’s priority investigation, confirming this was not limited to one regional office. CBS said large offices were asked to send eight analysts each, while small and medium offices were asked for three to five, targeting 260 total across the bureau. Those tactical-intelligence staffers, CBS reported, are the people who often handle open-source checks, phone analysis, subpoenas and subpoena returns, the nuts-and-bolts work that can turn seized records into usable investigative leads. CBS added that earlier FBI warrants in Fulton County sought all physical ballots from 2020, tapes from vote-tabulating machines, ballot images and voter rolls. The bureau declined to comment. The FBI is directing hundreds of analysts to dig into what it calls a “priority” investigation related to the 2020 election in Georgia, sources tell @KDilanianMSNOW. https://t.co/OzQJZDMKOE — Greg Bluestein (@bluestein) July 2, 2026 The manpower surge builds on activity that started earlier this year in Atlanta. FOX 5 Atlanta reported in February on unsealed search warrants and a 20-page affidavit tied to FBI activity at the Fulton County Election Hub, giving local context for why this new surge is landing months later. The warrant executed on January 28, 2026 targeted roughly 700 boxes of ballots and digital records, and FOX 5 said agents seized more than 650 boxes containing original physical ballots, digital images and voting-machine records from the county hub. The affidavit focused on whether intentional acts caused discrepancies in the count of 528,777 ballots in Fulton County, along with possible federal violations tied to election records and fair vote-counting processes. Fulton County officials pushed back, dismissing the allegations as recycled rumors and unproven conspiracy theories. That is their position. The FBI’s position is that this is a priority investigation worth 260 analysts and a July deadline. Nobody has been charged as a result of this surge, and no fraud has been proven. What is undeniable is the scale. An agency does not order field offices coast to coast to dedicate analysts and set a hard record-review deadline for a matter it considers minor. Fulton County is squarely back under federal scrutiny, and the record review is moving fast. Legacy Media Continues To Pretend To Know Nothing "The Federal Bureau of Investigation is assigning an army of 260 investigative analysts to a “priority” investigation related to the 2020 election in Fulton County, Ga., a reflection of President Trump’s ongoing push to prove his… https://t.co/ReuRvyy369 pic.twitter.com/PRIJn86cFG — Rasmussen Reports (@Rasmussen_Poll) July 3, 2026 For years, Americans who asked hard questions about Fulton County were told to move on and stop talking. Now federal investigators are the ones asking, and they brought an army of analysts to do it. This is a Guest Post from our friends over at WLTReport. View the original article here. The post JUST IN: FBI Surges Resources Into 2020 Election Probe In Fulton County! appeared first on 100PercentFedUp.com.

Almost two years after Thomas Crooks fired eight shots at President Trump from a rooftop in Butler, Pennsylvania, a new federal report spells out how close the Secret Service came to stopping it and how many times it failed. The DHS Office of Inspector General released report OIG-26-13 on June 30, 2026. The title alone tells the story. It is called The Secret Service Missed Opportunities to Prevent and Disrupt the Attempted Assassination of President Trump on July 13, 2024. Crooks fired from the roof of the American Glass Research complex during the July 13, 2024 campaign rally. President Trump was wounded, others were wounded, and one spectator was killed. The findings are worse than a bad day. They read like a chain of warnings that never reached the people who could have acted on them. UPDATE: Thomas Crooks —Unbelievable! New DHS Report shows Secret Service agents tried to move Trucks to obstruct the Line of Sight from the AGR Building, but Trump’s Campaign staff rejected the idea because the trucks would be “too close to President Trump’s press shot.” An… https://t.co/c1OeoyKAiZ pic.twitter.com/XcwXUsGC15 — MJTruthUltra (@MJTruthUltra) July 3, 2026 Start with the line of sight, because that is where the report gets specific. The Secret Service had already identified the AGR complex as a line-of-sight concern. That is the exact rooftop Crooks used. According to the OIG, the site agent’s counterpart proposed placing trucks that were already on location between the AGR building and the stage to block that sightline. Protectee staff denied the request. The reason, per the report, was that the trucks would be too close to President Trump’s press shot. An alternative placement nearby was agreed to. But the trucks were never actually placed there, and agents did not escalate the problem. The DHS Office of Inspector General concluded that the Secret Service identified the AGR line of sight as a danger and simply did not ensure the available resources blocked it. OIG also noted that agents failed to monitor whether the agreed equipment placement happened or elevate the exposed sightline once the problem remained. The report also documents the drone. Crooks flew one from 3:51 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. that afternoon, and it viewed both the stage and the AGR roof. The Secret Service counter-drone system was inoperable at the time. Crooks scouted the scene from the air and nobody caught it. Then there is the communications breakdown, which is staggering in scale. Local law enforcement passed 102 radio transmissions about an increasingly intense search for a suspicious person. The Secret Service received only five phone calls and three text messages about Crooks. The protective detail was never warned that Crooks had a range finder, a long gun, and had climbed onto the AGR roof. Multiple members of that detail told the OIG that if they had known about the ongoing search, they would have delayed the speech or removed President Trump from the stage. UPDATE: Thomas Crooks — Insane! New DHS Report: The Secret Service Failed to Secure AGR Roof Crooks Used – Despite KNOWING State Police Left It Exposed The DHS Office of Inspector General found that Pennsylvania State Police sent their operations plan on July 12, 2024. It… https://t.co/1AaeuoA64p pic.twitter.com/xwQWfdRNlH — MJTruthUltra (@MJTruthUltra) July 3, 2026 The roof itself should never have been left open, and the report says the Secret Service had reason to know it. Pennsylvania State Police emailed an operations plan on July 12, 2024, the day before the rally. It laid out areas outside the perimeter to secure, but it did not include securing the AGR complex. The lead agent and site agent reviewed that plan. According to the OIG, they did not provide comments or clarification, and the explanations agents later gave were inconsistent with Secret Service policy. So the gap sat in writing, in an email, the day before, and it went unaddressed. The most alarming detail may be what happened in the communications room minutes before the shooting. At about 6:09 p.m., local law enforcement warned the Secret Service and PSP communications room about a suspicious person on the AGR roof. The Secret Service communications supervisor and the counter-drone operator did not even ask where AGR was located. The counter-drone operator instead searched online for the location and was still searching when the shots began. The New York Post highlighted that same finding, noting that as the warnings came in about the rooftop, a Secret Service member was still googling the building’s location when Crooks fired. That detail fits the broader timeline: local officers were moving faster than the federal team, while the protective detail still did not have the rooftop warning. The report also exposes a failure that happened well before anyone reached Butler. Secret Service leadership received classified intelligence about a long-distance threat to President Trump. But the agency’s protective intelligence division never got permission to share that classified threat with the people who needed it. That means the Pittsburgh Field Office leadership, the lead agent, the site agent, and the lead counter sniper went into the event without it. Officials at the Pittsburgh Field Office told the OIG they would have requested additional personnel had they known. One said she would have zeroed in on the AGR complex specifically. UPDATE: Thomas Crooks — Very Bad.. New DHS Report shows the Secret Service HID Classified Threat Intelligence From Its Own Field Agents about a “Long Distance” Threat — Leading to Too Few Protectors at the Rally Days before the rally, the Secret Service received classified… https://t.co/HzxoxD6KUT pic.twitter.com/buQzV7Zpez — MJTruthUltra (@MJTruthUltra) July 3, 2026 Senator Chuck Grassley reached a similar conclusion in his own oversight work. His office’s release, tied to a GAO review, said senior Secret Service officials had classified intelligence about a threat to President Trump’s life roughly ten days before the rally and failed to relay it to the federal and local personnel responsible for security. Grassley’s release said the GAO found the Secret Service had no process to share classified threat information with partners when it was not treated as an imminent threat to life. It also cited planning failures, resource allocation problems, training gaps, communication breakdowns, and the same line-of-sight issue. Grassley’s release noted that a campaign staffer objected to using large farm equipment to address the AGR sightline because it would interfere with press photos. His release added that enhanced counter-drone equipment was not provided because resources were allocated elsewhere, while counter-sniper resources were separately approved. The OIG issued seven recommendations, and the Secret Service concurred with all of them. Recommendations 1, 4, and 6 were resolved and closed, while 2, 3, 5, and 7 remain resolved and open. That is the paperwork. The human cost is what actually happened on that field. A spectator was killed. Others were wounded. President Trump was hit and survived by inches. Every one of these failures was catchable. The threat intel existed. The rooftop concern was known. The radio traffic was screaming. The drone was in the air. And still the man got on that roof and pulled the trigger eight times. This report is a permanent record of how a preventable attack was allowed to happen, and it is the standard the country should measure the Secret Service against from here forward. This is a Guest Post from our friends over at WLTReport. View the original article here. The post Shocking New Details Emerge In Thomas Crooks Butler, PA Shooting appeared first on 100PercentFedUp.com.

An Orleans Parish grand jury indicted Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill on July 2, 2026, on 16 felony counts. The charges break down into eight counts of public intimidation and eight counts of malfeasance in office. A $400,000 bond was set, and Murrill called the case retaliatory, meritless, and unconstitutional. Less than 24 hours later, the Louisiana Supreme Court stepped in and stayed the proceedings. Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill indicted on 16 felony counts | Click on the image to read the full story https://t.co/IcamxtDkBM — wdsu (@wdsu) July 3, 2026 The indictment traces back to letters Murrill sent in May to New Orleans officials during a fight over control of the city’s court system. The Louisiana Legislature moved to eliminate the city’s criminal clerk of court position and consolidate it with the civil clerk position. The New Orleans City Council pushed back by voting to appoint an interim clerk and call a special election. Murrill warned those officials that their actions could carry serious legal consequences. That warning is now the basis for eight public intimidation counts. Fox 8 reported the indictment covers letters Murrill sent to Mayor Helena Moreno, District Attorney Jason Williams, and multiple city councilmembers over the court-clerk consolidation law and the city’s resistance to it. The station reported the felony split: eight counts of public intimidation and eight counts of malfeasance in office tied to those official letters. It also cited official records showing a $400,000 bond, while laying out the background fight over the city council’s effort to install an interim clerk and call a special election. Governor Jeff Landry moved quickly after the indictment. Fox 8 reported he said he would pardon Murrill as fast as the law allows and described the proceedings as an Orleans kangaroo court. Landry also ordered the Louisiana State Police to investigate alleged improprieties tied to the grand jury process. Murrill moved just as fast. She filed an emergency stay motion with the Louisiana Supreme Court on July 3 and said the truth was coming out. I have filed an emergency stay motion with the Louisiana Supreme Court. The truth is coming out. pic.twitter.com/XTGGtVrQnx — Attorney General Liz Murrill (@AGLizMurrill) July 3, 2026 Then the state’s highest court delivered the twist. The Louisiana Supreme Court issued a stay in State of Louisiana v. Elizabeth Baker Murrill, No. 2026-KD-00865, after Murrill’s emergency application and used blunt language about how the case was built from the start in Orleans Parish criminal court. The order says Murrill made a compelling argument concerning disturbing defects in the grand jury proceedings and in the trial court’s handling of them, including the way the return was handled. The court said the indictment appears to turn the law on its head and to flow from extraordinary procedural defects and improprieties. The order points to public accounts that reporters were handcuffed and removed from proceedings that should have been held in open court under Louisiana law. It also flags possible conflicts involving special prosecutor Laurie White, including that White had previously represented Calvin Duncan and that Murrill’s office was defending White in a sexual harassment suit. The court found Murrill has considerable support for the view that she is likely to succeed on a motion to quash, on either legal grounds or procedural irregularities. The order stays the matter and remands it so Murrill can file defensive pleadings, including motions to quash, while allowing responses and recusal motions. The indictment is still alive, but frozen. The next fight is over whether it survives at all. I’m grateful to the Louisiana Supreme Court for swiftly issuing a stay in this matter. The constitution and laws of Louisiana impose a wide swath of duties on the Attorney General. I will continue to carry out those duties to the best of my ability. This matter is not over. I… pic.twitter.com/qSpbn4STfH — Attorney General Liz Murrill (@AGLizMurrill) July 3, 2026 AP framed the broader clash around the Republican-backed court overhaul in New Orleans and the tension between Republican state leadership and Democratic officials in the city over control of local courts and offices, including the clerk fight. The report said the charges accused Murrill of threatening the jobs of New Orleans officials who opposed the court changes. AP also reported that the Louisiana Supreme Court halted the criminal case after finding problems with the process surrounding the indictment, including media access issues and conflict questions involving the special prosecutor’s role. The same report noted Landry’s defense of Murrill and his vow to pardon her if necessary, putting the indictment squarely inside a larger state-versus-New-Orleans political fight. Murrill is treating the stay as an opening move, with dismissal motions still ahead. She thanked the court, said she would keep doing her job, and made clear she intends to seek dismissal. A red-state attorney general was charged with 16 felonies over letters she sent during a court-power fight. Within a day, the state’s highest court looked at the record and hit pause. Now Murrill gets her shot to knock the whole thing down. This is a Guest Post from our friends over at WLTReport. View the original article here. The post BREAKING: Red State Attorney General Indicted On 16 Felony Counts appeared first on 100PercentFedUp.com.

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