Women Fighting Extradition
March 10th, 2010
A central Pennsylvania woman is fighting extradition to Massachusetts where police have charged her with abducting her 13-month-old niece last month. An attorney for 38-year-old Alyssa Dawn Johnson, of Altoona, filed a petition Monday denying she's the person wanted by police in Swansea, Massachusetts. 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 on February 18th. The baby was found hours later, unharmed and abandoned outside a business in Middletown, Connecticut.
