Phillip Garrido has been arrested in the kidnapping of Jaycee Lee Dugard (El Dorado County Sheriff Office)
Phillip Garrido has been arrested in the kidnapping of Jaycee Lee Dugard (El Dorado County Sheriff Office)
Updated: Friday, 28 Aug 2009, 4:46 PM CDT
Published : Friday, 28 Aug 2009, 9:12 AM CDT
By FRANK CARNEVALE
(MYFOX NATIONAL) - Phillip Garrido, 58, was arrested in the kidnapping and rape of Jaycee Dugard Wednesday. Dugard is the California girl who was kidnapped in 1991 and has spent the last 18 years living in tents and sheds behind the home of Garrido, according to police.
Garrido's wife, Nancy, 54, was also arrested and prosecutors said the couple will likely to be charged on Friday.
This case brings to light Garrido's criminal past. Garrido was arrested in Reno on Nov. 23, 1976 on charges of kidnapping a South Lake Tahoe, Calif., woman. He was a 25-year-old musician at the time, when he knocked on the car window of a casino worker and asked for a ride, he then grabbed her, taped her up and drove her to a storage unit in Reno, Nev. Police happened upon the car at the storage unit and when approached and knocked, heard the woman scream.
According to the Reno Gazette-Journal , the officer said the unit had rugs on the floor and walls, pornographic magazines, a movie projector, marital aids, a spotlight, wine and hot water.
In 1977 Garrido was sentenced to 50 years in federal prison for kidnapping and five years to life on a state charge of sexual assault for crimes in Nevada. He started his federal prison term on June 30, 1977 and then was transferred to Nevada authorities on Jan. 22, 1988 to serve state time. He was then paroled in Nevada on Aug. 26, 1988 and then later paroled to California.
Mercury News.com reported that a violation landed him back in prison from April to August 1993. The San Franciso Chronicle reported that police and authorities made several visits to Garrido's home, but never found evidence of anyone living there except for he and his wife.
Eleven-year-old Dugard was abducted off a South Lake Tahoe street while walking to a bus stop near her home on June 10, 1991.