Print Shop Customer Gets Death Threats and Molino's Want Their Names Cleared

Investigators search three California properties of former Garrido client
Sites in Pittsburg, Bay Point and Pleasant Hill are searched in connection with the investigation of kidnapping suspect Phillip Garrido.
By Molly Hennessy-Fiske

September 10, 2009

Investigators searched several properties owned by a client of accused kidnapper Phillip Garrido on Wednesday, seizing a computer and other items, a Contra Costa County sheriff's spokesman said.

Garrido, 58, and wife Nancy, 54, were arrested Aug. 26 and remain jailed in El Dorado County on kidnapping and rape charges in connection with the 1991 kidnapping of 11-year-old Jaycee Lee Dugard, with whom Garrido allegedly had two daughters.

Investigators searched three properties in Pittsburg, Bay Point and Pleasant Hill near the city of Antioch, Calif., where Garrido lived, said sheriff's spokesman Jimmy Lee.

Lee said the owner of the properties, who is not a suspect in the kidnapping, was on probation and thus required to comply with the searches. Lee said reports that the property owners are Jim and Cheyvonne Molino, former customers of Garrido's printing business, were accurate. Cheyvonne Molino, 35, did not respond to phone calls late Wednesday.
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Jaycee Dugard case prompts raids on Pittsburg wrecking yard owners' properties
By John Simerman and Paul Burgarino Contra Costa Times
Posted: 09/09/2009 08:48:14 PM PDT
By John Simerman and Paul Burgarino Staff Writers

Contra Costa sheriff"s detectives on Wednesday raided properties and seized a computer from the owners of a Pittsburg auto wrecking yard that kidnap-rape suspect Phillip Garrido frequented, one of the owners said.

Sheriff"s spokesman Jimmy Lee offered few details about the morning raids, saying only that detectives conducted three probation searches, in Pittsburg, Bay Point and Pleasant Hill, in their ongoing investigation into the 1991 kidnapping and alleged rapes of Jaycee Dugard over several years.

Cheyvonne Molino, 35, who runs the JM Enterprises yard with her husband, Jim Molino, said 15 officers entered their Pleasant Hill home around 11 a.m. and searched through their personal belongings, seizing a Macintosh desktop computer as well as DVDs and VHS tapes.

She said she asked what they were looking for, and they told her things related to the Garrido case.

"They just came in and violated our privacy," Molino said. "I don"t understand why we"re now the bad guys. I mean, they never asked to see if maybe we can help them instead of coming in on me and my tenants. What about my rights?"

Under the Fourth Amendment, law enforcement agencies are not required to obtain a search warrant when conducting a search of a person on probation.

Molino said that her husband Jim "” who turned 60 on Wednesday "” is on court probation, but that it is unrelated to the Garrido case. She said they are "vicitms by association."

Lee said the Molinos are not suspects in the Garrido case.

The Molinos did printing business with Garrido, who sometimes visited their wrecking yard with the two daughters police say he fathered with Dugard. Garrido credited "JM Enterprizes" as a sponsor on a recent flier he made for his religion-inspired company, God"s Desire.

"I don"t see why they had to do this," Molino said. "They could have talked to me two weeks ago."

Lee declined to respond to Molino"s claims or confirm that the couple"s properties were searched. In addition to their Pleasant Hill home and the Pittsburg business, the couple also own a rental property in Bay Point.

The wrecking yard, with a history of environmental violations, has been under local political fire lately. Two weeks ago the city planning commission voted unanimously to revoke its permit. The couple said they plan to appeal the decision.

In the meantime, Lee said it may take a few weeks to receive DNA results from a small bone fragment found in the backyard of Phillip and Nancy Garridos" next-door neighbor in unincorporated Contra Costa County near Antioch. Lee said the agency would try to expedite the testing, as it explores any possible link between the kidnap-rape suspects and several 1990s prostitute rapes and body dumps in Pittsburg industrial areas, along with "any other possible open cases agencies may have," Lee said.

After an expert determined that the bone fragment was "probably human," Lee cautioned Tuesday that it may be Native American burial remains.

"We actually run across that pretty regularly at this end of the county," said Antioch police Lt. Leonard Orman. He said the city has no missing bodies on record. Pittsburg police last week said the four-day search of the couple"s property and a neighbor"s turned up no links to any unsolved cases in the city.

Phillip Garrido, 58, and his wife, Nancy, 54, remain held without bail at an El Dorado County jail in Placerville. They stand charged with 29 felony counts in Dugard"s 1991 abduction and an alleged series of rapes through her youth. They are scheduled to appear Monday for a bail hearing.

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LOS ANGELES - One of Phillip Garrido's printing clients wants kidnap victim Jaycee Dugard to speak up and clear her name after cops raided three of her properties in an apparent search for child pornography.

"She needs to let people know what really went on and clear my name," Cheyvonne Molino told the Daily News Thursday after police seized a laptop and video tapes from her northern California home.

Molino said investigators upended drawers and mattresses Wednesday looking for "unmarked tapes" and wanted to "authenticate" photos taken at her daughter's recent sweet sixteen birthday party.

The birthday photos, which have circulated in the media, purport to show the daughters, 11 and 15, that Garrido allegedly had with Dugard while she was a teen sex slave.

"We have nothing to do with this. I don't have videotapes of him. He dropped the kids off at the party and picked them up. He wasn't around anyone's kids," Molino said.

"I never videotaped the girls."

She said the tapes confiscated by police include a copy of the film "Jacob's Ladder."

Molino and her husband "are not suspects or persons of interest," Jimmy Lee, a spokesman with the Contra Costa County Sheriff, told the News.

He declined to comment on any link between Garrido, who ran a home-based printing business, and child pornography.

Garrido, 58, and his wife Nancy, 54, face charges they snatched 11-year-old Dugard from South Lake Tahoe in 1991, raped her and forced her to live 18 years in an Antioch, Calif., backyard prison.

Molino said Dugard's daughters visited her auto wrecking yard with their dad several times a week starting this summer.
"They seemed like normal tweens. They didn't go hide in a corner. They helped me decorate for my daughter's party. They would help around the office, filing papers," she said.

"The 11-year-old told me she went to church in her basement. That was about the weirdest thing."


I do not believe for one moment that it is up to Jaycee to clear these people. She does not control how LE conducts their business. If Molino wants her name cleared she better step up and give LE any and every piece of information or details that she can provide. Clear Your Own Name... Don't demand that the victim of this very serious crime do it for you!

No kidding leave her alone. I never even heard of this story until now so I don't think she has anything to worry about.

leave her out of this! if they want their name cleared they have to wait for the trial. jaycee might not even know if they are responsible, what if they are?

Phillip Garrido Client Wants Jaycee Dugard To Tell Truth About Ordeal

NEW YORK (CBS) "Jaycee Dugard please step forward," pleaded Cheyvonne Molino, one of Phillip Garrido’s business associates who says in recent years kidnap victim Jaycee Lee Dugard and her daughters lived in their accused kidnappers’ home, not in tents and sheds in the backyard as authorities have claimed.

Molino also wants Jaycee to clear her good name now that authorities have raided three of her properties, she says, in search of child pornography.

Molino told CBS affiliate KPIX San Francisco that she had been in the Garrido home and backyard and saw nothing suspicious, and that from what she could tell, the girls and Dugard slept in the house.

"They told you guys that that woman and her daughters were held captive til the day he released them. That was not true. And I was the only person that had visual proof that they had been out of that,” Molino told KPIX.

Molina also called out Jaycee to tell what she felt was the truth.

"Tell the media, tell the government exactly what happened to you," Molino told reporters as part of an open message to Dugard, who was kidnapped at age 11 in 1991 in South Lake Tahoe, Calif.

Dugard and her two daughters, 11 and 15, allegedly sired by Garrido, are currently sequestered with family members who she has not seen for the past 18 years.


(Family Photo)Photo: Jaycee Lee Dugard at age 3. She was kidnapped at 11.

Molino told the Early Show’s Julie Chen in an interview that she knew Garrido well. "I met his daughters, I watched them grow up."

Garrido reportedly took one or both of the young girls with him as he toured clients of his printing business, either to discuss work or to hand out religious literature.

"We got to see them more and more over the summertime, three or four times a week," Molino told "Early Show" co-anchor Julie Chen. "They were very nice and polite. They'd come out and deliver water on 102 degree weather days with their dad, stay about 10, 15 minutes, and go to the next location."

On Wednesday, authorities raided three properties owned by Molino and her husband, Jim. Molino says they took DVDs, VHS tapes, and a laptop in search of child pornography connected to Garrido's case. Authorities did not say what they were looking for.

Sheriff’s spokesman Jimmy Lee told CBS affiliate KPIX San Francisco that Jim Molino was on probation weapons violation so deputies could search his three properties without a warrant.

Authorities searched the Molinos’ business, JM Auto Wreckers in Pittsburg, Calif.; as well as two homes where the couple resided in Pleasant Hill and Bay Point, Calif.

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This is not right. Hasn't this girl been through enough???

Click the above link for pics.

I merged the threads

:thanks:

Sorry, my bad!!!! :shock:

Thanks for merging!!!

Does anyone else think this person "does protest too much". quilty conscience for not acting on suspicions or something more????? maybe just a weirdo???? definately no concern for the victim. I hope someone pounds that point home, leave Jaycee alone.

I agree with all the posts & NiteSpinR, you're right, the lady needs to clear her own name.

She needs to take a poly, give them anything they want, but it is not Jaycee's job to clear her name.

Jaycee & her family deserve nothing but peace & healing. It appalls me some people are so self absorbed they can't understand what Jaycee is dealing with.

Garrido "Associate" Says She Received Death Threat
Posted: 5:22 pm PDT September 10, 2009
Updated: 1:14 am PDT September 11, 2009

ANTIOCH, Calif. -- A woman who freely shared her outrage at being dragged into the Garrido case after her property was searched stood silent Thursday, claiming she couldn't talk because of an anonymous death threat received against her and her family.

Two weeks have passed since the arrest of Phillip Garrido and his wife Nancy in connection with the alleged 1991 kidnapping and rape of the then 11-year-old Jaycee Dugard, but cars still slowly pass by as people look at the home near Antioch where Dugard was allegedly held for 18 years.

But the investigation has long since moved on from the home owned by Garrido and his wife. The couple faces 29 felony counts for their alleged crimes.

The latest search took deputies to three properties Wednesday which the sheriff's department said were connected to associates of Garrido.

"There was no reason for them to check my home out," said Cheyvonne Molino Wednesday. "They did take my personal computer and they did say they needed to check the authenticity of the pictures of Jaycee Dugard's daughters."

Molino said her daughter threw a sweet sixteen party at their Pleasant Hill home and Dugard's daughters, allegedly fathered by Garrido, attended the event in August.

"They wanted to check and see if perhaps we had any videos or any other pictures of Mr. Garrido," said Molino. "I asked them why he was a business connection; he didn't attend the party, his girls did. And anything that they wanted, I had no problem sharing with them."

Thursday afternoon, by phone, Molino said she had received an anonymous death threat to no longer talk to the media about the case. She and her husband have moved to a hotel for safety.

Police confiscated a computer and DVDs from this property and searched the couple's auto junkyard business in Pittsburg and a rental home in Bay Point.

The sheriff's department would not say what they were looking for and did not have any new details Thursday in the Garrido investigation.

The sheriff's department said the Molino's are not suspects and the search was one part of the broader investigation of the Garridos.
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Wonder what this person was expecting to happen when she started speaking up on behalf of a kidnapper and pediafile?
Stupid Bitch... it does not surprise me at all that people feel compelled to threaten her. yeah...yeah... yeah I'll say it "This is Just My Opinion!"

maybe shes terrified that they will find out that she didnt do enough?

fess up to your actions, cause ur the only one who can!

this woman could not say enough about this case, the girls, the whole shooting match when being interviewed last week. She could not say enough nice things about all of them....SHE brought up the girls coming to the bday party, she said the girls were very clean and dressed in cute clothes.....SHE was all over the media looking for HER 15 minutes of fame!!! Backfired and yes, it is up to her to clear her name , not three innocent victims of hell.

So the girls were well behaved, clean, and dressed nicely. THIS, is supposed to make it OK that their Mother was kidnapped as an 11 year old child and forced to have sex with these SICK creeps? SHe who screams for a cleared name, is as sick as the jerk who took Jaycee.