called 911 on November 30 , 2006 , to say that a woman and young children were living in tents in the backyard of Phillip Garrido , said Sheriff Warren E. Rupf of Contra Costa County , California , on Friday . `` This is not an acceptable outcome , '' he said . Watch Rupf talk about the ` missed opportunity ' '' The responding sheriff 's deputy spoke with Garrido , a registered sex offender , in the front yard of his house . `` None of us , particularly law enforcement , should believe a word that one of these animals utters , '' Rupf said when asked about the lessons learned from the missed opportunity . `` If there 's a sophistication -LSB- about sex offenders -RSB- in any regard , it 's in misrepresenting who they are and what motivates them . '' We took things he said obviously at face value and did not properly brand him . '' Rupf also said that `` to the best of his knowledge , '' the deputy did n't know that Garrido was a sex offender . The deputy determined that no crime had been committed even
ANTIOCH , California -LRB- CNN -RRB- -- Phillip Garrido and his wife , Nancy , will face 29 felony counts after being accused of kidnapping Jaycee Lee Dugard when she was 11 and keeping her in their backyard since 1991 , the district attorney of El Dorado County , California , said Friday . Phillip Garrido , a registered sex offender , was arraigned in California on Friday . The Garridos are each facing charges of kidnapping someone under 14 years of age , kidnapping for sexual purposes , forcible rape and forcible lewd acts on a child . The maximum penalty for both defendants would be life imprisonment . Authorities are looking into Garrido 's possible connection to other crimes . Hear interview with Garrido '' A search warrant was issued for Garrido 's home in connection with killings that occurred in the 1990s , a spokesman for the Contra Costa Sheriff 's Department said Friday . Pittsburg , California , police obtained the search warrant , said the spokesman , Jimmy Lee . Earlier Friday , a California sheriff also admitted that his organization `` missed an opportunity '' nearly three years ago to find Dugard . Someone