Customers like Jay Leno and Matt Farah have lauded Donnie Callaway but now he’s facing serious charges related to his service business
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- Repairman Donnie Callaway is facing theft and fraud charges.
- He was booked into jail on April 1, 2024, and is awaiting an arraignment hearing on April 17.
- His trial is scheduled for August 14 and it’s only the latest run-in with the law during his career.
Donnie Callaway has made a name for himself in the vintage Ferrari scene. He’s the guy many owners go to when they need service on their classic cars. Matt Farah and Jay Leno have both gone to Callaway in the past but those days might be over. He’s now facing serious charges including theft and fraud.
Callaway landed behind bars most recently after he allegedly attempted to sell a Ferrari Daytona and a 512BB. His buyer was a Ferrari collector in Arizona who evidently had come to believe that Callaway didn’t actually own these cars. As a result, he created what is being described as a ‘sting operation’.
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To one degree or another, that sting appears to have been successful as Callaway landed in the Maricopa County Lower Buckeye Jail shortly thereafter. Now, he’s being held on a $400k cash bond according to Bloomberg, and awaiting an arraignment hearing on April 17. His trial is scheduled for August 14th.
This isn’t the only legal trouble that Callaway is dealing with either. A separate lawsuit filed in August of 2023 alleges that he committed fraud among other things. It requests restitution of several cars including a 1973 Ferrari Daytona valued at $950k and a Maserati 3500 Spyder valued at $825k. The lawsuit claims that Callaway sabotaged a Ferrari Testarossa by placing metal pieces in the spark plugs.
Evidently, Callaway even called out that the Ferrari wouldn’t run for much longer after that. “After [Callaway] had departed from Belgium (where the Testarossa was), Plaintiff noticed [he] began to make posts on social media regarding the Testarossa, where [he] made such statements, ‘Never to be seen on the road again,’ and ‘It’s [sic] Last Drive,’” the lawsuit says.
A hearing in that case is set for May 14. Whether or not Callaway can make it might depend on how his charges in Arizona are going at that time. An anonymous third party has gone as far as to create an Instagram account claiming to be Callaway. On it, they use the description “Swindler mechanic I want to take your car apart and never put it back together. Some day it will be mine !” They’ve posted several photos of Callaway’s legal charges, mugshots, and links to the cases he’s facing.