Threats against parole agent in Jaycee Dugard case prompt move

11-19-2009 California:

ANTIOCH — The parole agent who supervised kidnapping and rape suspect Phillip Garrido has been moved to a different location because of threats against him and his family, the state corrections department said today.

California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Spokesman Gordon Hinkle said the agent and his family were moved shortly after Jaycee Dugard was discovered and Garrido and his wife, Nancy, were arrested Aug. 26.

The move was "due to security concerns that the department had," Hinkle said.

Hinkle said the agent's name leaked to the public, prompting the transfer. Hinkle would not say where the agent was transferred.

His children had to be taken out of school because of threats.

"He had received serious threats to his personal safety," Hinkle said. "There were threats of several kinds, but I can't divulge ... the details."

The Garridos have pleaded not guilty to abducting then 11-year-old Dugard outside her South Lake Tahoe home in 1991 and holding her captive in the backyard of their Antioch home for nearly two decades.

Phillip Garrido was a registered sex offender on federal parole for kidnapping and rape. The agent who was moved was the latest in a series of parole officers who supervised him. ..Source.. Roman Gokhman