Jaycee Dugard reappears 18 years after abduction, updates: arrests, searches

August 27, 10:17 AMSF Family ExaminerTeri Stoddard

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A woman claiming to be Jaycee Lee Dugard, a child who was abducted by strangers 18 years ago in South Lake Tahoe, showed up at the Concord Police Department yesterday.  This lead to the FBI calling her mother Terry Probyn, who spoke with the woman and was on her way to Concord. 

According to this El Dorado County Sheriff press release shown on local blog Claycord.com, it has been confirmed that the woman is in fact Dugard.

Television station KRON 4 reports that a search warrant is currently being served in Antioch on the 1500 block of Walnut Avenue, and that two people, a man and a woman have been arrested in connection with the crime. 

The El Dorado Sheriff Department is scheduled to give a press conference at 3 pm.

This story will be updated as new information becomes available.

 UPDATE:  This sex offender lives at the address of the search warrant.

UPDATE:  Live video of search of Antioch house

UPDATE: The couple (58-year-old Phillip Craig Garrido, a registered sex offender, and his wife 55-year-old Nancy Garrido) are being held in Martinez on charges of kidnapping and rape of a child, with a million dollar bail.  Jaycee and her mother met in an undisclosed location this morning.

UPDATE:  The Mayor of Claycord tells us Garrido has this creepy blog about hearing messages from beyond. 

According to local television station CBS 5:

Phillip Garrido was booked on five pending charges -- kidnapping, rape, lewd behavior, sexual penetration and conspiracy; Nancy Garrido was booked on two pending charges of kidnapping and conspiracy, jail officials said.

Phillip Garrido is also a suspect in an on-going elder abuse investigation, according to Antioch police Sgt. Diane Aguinaga.

SF Gate reports:

The couple were arrested after they walked into the police station with Dugard to ask a question, authorities said. They would not say what the question involved, but it apparently aroused the suspicions of a Concord police officer.

The officer ran a criminal history check of Phillip Garrido and found out he was a registered sex offender, authorities said. State records show that he has a conviction for rape by force, and federal records show him serving a stint in federal prison in Leavenworth, Kan., in the 1980s.

 UPDATES: 

• Dugard confirms Garridos claim of reform
• Did Dugard cadaver dogs locate other missing California children?
• Jaycee Dugard's aunt shares photos, dad wants Garrido dead
• Look at California's other abducted children as adults
• Girls learn Alissa is mom Jaycee, reports of sex parties, meth
• Breakthrough sex and fatherhood changed him claims Garrido, videos
• Jaycee Dugard confined in shed, had two daughters by abductor
• Jaycee Dugard bore children of sex offender abductor, video, map