A woman who was kidnapped in 1991 at the age of 11 turned up at a California police station on Wednesday, authorities said, and a couple accused of abducting her has reportedly been arrested. Jaycee Dugard had been missing since she was abducted near her home in South Lake Tahoe on June 10, 1991 by two people in a gray sedan.

"1991 kidnap victim Jaycee Dugard has been located in good health in the greater Bay Area of California," an El Dorado County Sheriff's spokesman said in a brief written statement.

Few other details were immediately released but the San Francisco Chronicle newspaper reported on its website that Ms Dugard, now 29, was identified after she walked into a police station with the married couple accused of abducting her.

The paper, citing law enforcement sources, said Phillip Craig Garrido, 58, and Nancy Garrido, 55, came into the Concord station with Ms Dugard to ask a question and were detained after arousing the suspicion of an officer.

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