The kidnapping of 11-year-old Jaycee Lee Dugard as she headed to a South Shore bus stop 18 years ago sent reverberations through the community that are still felt today, an investigator who worked on the case said.

The San Francisco Chronicle is reporting that the two people arrested in connection with the Jaycee Lee Dugard case are Phillip Craig Garrido, 58, of Antioch and his wife, Nancy Garrido, 55.

The couple accused of kidnapping Jaycee Lee Dugard have their arraignment scheduled for 1 p.m. today in Department 7 of El Dorado Superior Court in Placerville.

Eighteen years after an abduction that stymied police and terrified parents across Northern Nevada, Jaycee Lee Dugard - improbably, miraculously - has been found alive.

Jaycee Lee Dugard, who has been missing from her South Lake Tahoe home for 18 years, has surfaced in Concord. Dugard, now 29, was abducted in Meyers, in El Dorado County, on June 10, 1991, as her stepfather watched helplessly.

After being imprisoned as a sex slave for almost two decades and forced to bear the children of her captor Jaycee Lee Dugard had one thing to say as she was reunited with her family today: “I’m sorry”.

The Contra Costa County sheriff has issued an extraordinary apology for missing an opportunity to rescue Jaycee Lee Dugard. Shortly afterward, Phillip and Nancy Garrido were arraigned in El Dorado Superior Court and both pleaded not guilty to all counts.

The parents of Jaycee Lee Dugard, the girl kidnapped nearly two decades ago and found alive in the US yesterday, said today that their daughter looks very similar to the day she was snatched aged 11.

Jaycee Lee Dugard was only 11 when she was snatched off the street in El Dorado County. For the next 18 years, she was confined in a shed or a tent.