CONCORD, Calif. (KCBS) -- Jaycee Lee Dugard, not seen since she was abducted 18 years ago, has been located in good health in Contra Costa County, according to the El Dorado County Sheriff's Office.
A registered sex offender and his wife have been arrested in connection with the case. FBI agents are searching the couple's Antioch home, where Dugard may have been living.
Dugard presented herself to authorities in Contra Costa County on Wednesday night. Her identity was confirmed by the mother, Terry Probyn, who flew from her home in Riverside to the Bay Area to be reunited with her daughter.
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Probyn's husband Carl said that during a phone conversation, FBI agents told his wife they “had Jaycee and the people responsible.”
Police arrested 58-year-old Phillip Craig Garrido on charges of kidnapping, rape and lewd and lascivious acts with a minor. State records show he has a prior rape conviction.
His wife, 55-year-old Nancy Garrido, is being held on kidnapping and conspiracy charges. Bail for each has been set at $1 million, according to police.
Dugard was 11 years old when a couple in a car snatched her away as she walked between a school bus stop and the family’s home in the South Lake Tahoe suburb of Meyers.
The El Dorado County Sheriff's Department has scheduled a news conference for 3 p.m. Thursday to discuss the case.
Dugard’s kidnapping bears several similarities to another high-profile case, the 2002 abduction of Elizabeth Smart in Utah. In May of 2003, shortly after Smart was reunited with her family, Dugard's mother Terry Probyn, neighbors, and investigators took a look at the possibility the cases were connected.
Despite collaboration between El Dorado County detectives and Salt Lake City investigators, the Dugard case remained unsolved.
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