SACRAMENTO - State parole officials missed many chances to capture convicted sex offender Phillip Garrido and find Jaycee Lee Dugard, whom Garrido is accused of kidnapping 18 years ago and harboring in his Antioch backyard, a prison watchdog has concluded in a highly critical report released yesterday.
Inspector General David R. Shaw said a two-month investigation found that parole agents didn’t revoke Garrido’s parole and send him to prison when the tracking device used to monitor him showed that he had gone beyond a permitted radius from his home; didn’t classify him as a high-risk sex offender who would have received more intensive supervision; didn’t explore utility wires or other clues to the hidden backyard compound where Dugard and her daughters were allegedly kept; and didn’t talk to neighbors who might have revealed their presence.
Garrido and his wife are accused of kidnapping Dugard in 1991, when she was 11.
