A central Pennsylvania woman is fighting extradition to Massachusetts where police have charged her with abducting her 13-month-old niece in Swansea last month.
An attorney for 38-year-old Alyssa Dawn Johnson, of Altoona, filed a the petition Monday denying she’s the person wanted by Swansea police. A Blair County judge must now schedule an extradition hearing for Johnson, who also uses the first name Kimberly, and remains jailed on $1 million bond.
Massachusetts police began seeking Johnson after she allegedly drove away with her half sister’s daughter in the car while the baby’s mother went into a gas station Feb. 18. The baby was found hours later, unharmed and abandoned outside a business in Middletown, Conn.
Johnson claims she wasn’t in Massachusetts that day.
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