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--> --> Woman fights extradition PORTLAND (AP) - A 31-year-old woman accused in Washington of posing as a high school student will fight extradition to Oregon, where she allegedly filed a false claim that she was molested by a Portland police officer. Treva Throneberry is being held in Clark County, Wash., awaiting trial on two theft charges and a perjury charge. She insists that she is the victim of mistaken identity and she is Brianna Stewart, the name she used while attending Evergreen High School for three years, graduating last June. But Portland police say in 1993, she told officers that she was Keili Traci Smitt and that the allegedly abusive officer was her father, who she said she lived with. "We could find no connection between them," said Multnomah County deputy district attorney Chuck Sparks. "Her claims were unambiguous, but we have no reason to believe they had ever been acquainted." Over 15 years, Throneberry is suspected of using dozens of aliases in cities from Memphis, Tenn., to Vancouver, Wash., and contacting unsuspecting churches, youth shelters or social agencies for help, then telling stories of sexual abuse. By the time Multnomah County filed the charge in 1993, "Keili Traci Smitt" had vanished. The arrest warrant finally was served on her last week after Multnomah County authorities learned that she was in jail in Clark County. Throneberry, who was arrested March 22, is accused of bilking the Washington Department of Social and Health Services of $3,620 for foster care and getting a $1,050 tuition waiver from Clark College. She also is accused of using a false name to obtain an official Washington identification card. Since her arrest, the record of a Camas man, convicted in 1998 of having sex with Brianna Stewart, then supposedly 16, has been wiped clean after authorities learned that the "minor" was an adult. Throneberry apparently made her first sex-abuse allegation in her hometown of Electra, Texas, claiming that her father molested her, police records show. She dropped out of high school and left home at age 15. Since then, her family has had only sporadic contact with her. Throneberry's lawyer, Kathleen McCann, would only say that her client is sticking to her story of being Brianna Stewart. Email your... Technical questions & comments to: WebMaster Daily Tidings editorial comments & questions to: Editor Visit our other Oregon Newspapers... | Albany Democrat-Herald | Ashland Daily Tidings | Corvallis Gazette-Times | | Lebanon Express | Newport News-Times | Springfield News | Cottage Grove Sentinel | Ashland Daily Tidings 1661 Siskiyou Blvd. Ashland, OR 97520 Telephone 541-482-3456 © Copyright 2001 Lee Northwest Publishing