Background Check: Produces The Arrest Of Johnny Wright

Just a while ago we heard how a combination of a woman’s suspicions, a background check and a mother’s instincts resulted in the apprehension of Phillip Garrido from Antioch, California .

First Liza Campbell, Events Organiser,University of California, Berkeley, after seeing Garrido with his two daughters, became suspicious and carried out a Background Check on him which revealed he was on parole after a vicious sexual assault conviction and that he was a registered sex offender .

Liza was unable to conclude their discussion that day because of a prior appointment and so asked Garrido to return the following day. Meanwhile with the results back from the background check Liza asked Ally Jacobs, Police Officer, to accompany her at the following meeting the next day .

At this meeting Alison Jacobs talked separately to the two girls. Her motherly instincts told her something was strange about the girls. Alison telephoned Phillip Garrido’s parole officer about the meeting with Garrido and his two daughters .

Back came the shocking news. She felt sick to her stomach. Garrido didn’t have any daughters!
Now Phillip and Nancy Garrido are looking at a combined total of 29 felony charges, including forcible abduction, rape and false imprisonment in connection with the kidnapping of Jaycee Lee Dugard in 1991.

Garrido is held in custody at the El Dorado County Jail in Placerville, CA, as he and his wife Nancy Garrido await trial .

This is what a woman’s suspicion, a Background Check and a mother’s instincts can do. Hooray for background checks and suspicion. How great was that result!

Another story that promotes doing a background check is the arrest this week of Johnny Wright after 25 years of avoiding the Law.

Johnny Wright was detained on 23rd September after attempting to apply for a driving job in an Atlanta suburb. The position required a criminal background check for the job application. It was Wright who went to the Police Station in Lawrenceville, Georgia, to have the Background Check carried out! When he came back the following day to collect the paperwork he was arrested on a warrant issued in Missouri in 1985 for second-degree murder committed way back in 1976!

If only someone in the last 24 years had been suspicious enough of Wright to have carried out a Background Check on him, just like Liza Campbell did with Garrido. Perhaps Background Checks should form part of every job application?

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