Police Arrest Scottsdale AZ Woman in missing Baby Gabriel Johnson Case

by Megan Boehnke

and Kerry Fehr-Snyder,

The Arizona Republic
Feb. 3, 2010

azcentral.com

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Tempe AZ police concluded their role in the case of missing baby Gabriel Johnson hours after arresting a Scottsdale woman Tuesday on suspicion of trying to pressure the child's father into signing over his rights to the boy...

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Authorities say they still do not know the whereabouts of the 9-month-old baby. The investigation is now in the hands of police in San Antonio.

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Tammi Smith, 37, was booked into a Maricopa County jail on counts of forgery, custodial interference and conspiracy to commit custodial interference. The child's mother, Elizabeth Johnson, 23, is in jail on charges of kidnapping, child abuse and custodial interference.
Smith's husband, Jack, was cleared by Tempe police...
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Missing Baby Gabriel Johnson: Couple Who Hoped to Adopt Ariz. Baby Took Lie Detector Test

CBSnew.com
written by Edecio Martinez

PHOENIX--Scottsdale couple Jack and Terri Smith, who briefly took care of missing baby Gabriel Johnson, say they know nothing about where the 8-month-old is now. Arizona police are trying to determine if the baby was given to strangers in San Antonio, as Gabriel's mother Elizabeth Johnson told them, or murdered, as she told the boy's father.

They are also trying to understand what exactly Jack and Terri Smith know. The couple had hoped to adopt Gabriel and police asked them to take a polygraph test last Friday.

The couple has said they befriended Gabriel's mother Elizabeth Johnson, 23, at an airport and that she wanted to give her son up for adoption. The child briefly stayed with them, but the boy's father, Logan McQueary, did not want to give up parental rights...

She had also sent McQueary a text message saying she had killed the infant.

"She never ever gave specific details. Whether it be a domestic violence shelter, the underground, whether it be a hotel. Whatever it was that she continued to tell me and now I feel like a fool because knowing more stuff now after all the facts have been laid out in front of me, I see that she was lying to us and playing us," said Terri Smith.

...She was taken into custody Dec. 30 after failing to show up for a custodial hearing in Phoenix. Elizabeth Johnson has been charged with kidnapping, child abuse and custodial interference.

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