BREAKING NEWS

A Newport Beach man was scheduled to be arraigned today on charges that he and a Huntington Beach man tried to extort money from a woman for the return of her cell phone, Newport Beach police said.

Karl William ParrottÖ, 21, of Newport Beach, and Anthony Joseph FarraghÖ, 22, of Huntington Beach, were arrested Wednesday at South Coast Plaza after a police sting at Borders book store.

The woman’s cell phone was stolen April 25 from her Ferrari Spyder, which was parked in an underground garage in the 6000 block of Residencia in Newport Beach, police said. Then, on Tuesday, the woman got an e-mail message threatening to release information from the cell phone unless she paid $3,000 by 3 p.m. Wednesday.

She was directed to go to South Coast Plaza, where she would be contacted 30 minutes before the drop-off time and told where to leave the cash, police said. At South Coast Plaza, Newport Beach police detectives saw Parrott and Farragh in the Apple store at 3 p.m.

The woman was told to leave the money in a book at Borders, so detectives left a package there and arrested the two men after they picked it up, police said. Farragh is out on bail, and Parrott was scheduled for arraignment this morning at Harbor Justice Center.