Sep 29, 2009 9:45 pm US/Pacific
Elderly Man Broke After Friendship With Garrido
PITTSBURG (CBS 5) ―
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Mugshot of Phillip Craig Garrido, taken August 26, 2009.
CA Dept. of Corrections
CBS 5 has learned that Phillip Garrido, the accused kidnapper of Jaycee Dugard, is facing allegations from an Antioch neighbor who suffers from dementia.
Jack Medeiros now lives in a cramped board care room in Pittsburg. The 79 year old told CBS 5 that all he owns can now fit on to of the vanity in his bedroom. Before losing his leg to a blood infection and moving to Pittsburg, Medeiros lived next door to Garrido.
Medeiros said that Garrido regularly visited him, and often brought the girls he allegedly fathered with Jaycee Dugard. He also admits to giving Garrido money.
"First check I made out was a thousand dollars," said Medeiros, who claims he gave the money to Garrido to fund a family trip to San Francisco.
A woman named Linda, who doesn't want her full name revealed due to her occupation, investigates crimes against the elderly, and now has legal authority over Medeiros. She claims that Phillip Garrido raided Medeiros' bank account for years. Now the VA retiree is destitute.
"He would like to maybe go to Wal-Mart to buy some shaving cream. He can't do that because he doesn't have any money left," she said. "He'd like to go to the movies. But he can't he doesn't have any money left."
Linda's investigation shows that, as recently as 2005, Medeiros had roughly $25,000 in a checking account. That account is now empty, and she said the canceled checks tell the story.
"I found, so far, ten pages front and back of checks…written to Phillip Garrido," said Linda. "I found some of his money, being spent on the website…a porn website."
Financial records show in 2008 that his account was used regularly to visit an adult website. But Medeiros said he never used the internet.
Just three weeks before Garrido's arrest in the Dugard abduction, the bank cashed a check made out to Garrido's So-Called God's Desire Church for $2,000.
Antioch Police told CBS 5 that they interviewed Mr. Medeiros at least a year ago, and at that time he admitted the missing money was a loan to Phillip Garrido. So with that, the District Attorney decided to not file charges.
But CBS 5 took some canceled checks that appeared to have different handwriting to an expert. He didn't have to look through the magnifying lens long to find glaring discrepancies in the checks. Some of those checks appeared to have been written to look as if they came from an elderly person, but Medeiros said he never wrote them.
Now broke, Medeiros has now changed his mind about his longtime friend Phillip Garrido.
"He's just a liar," he said.
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