A photo taken from an Amtran bus surveillance video allegedly shows Amani R. Williams holding a wallet she found on the bus but failed to turn in.

An Altoona woman seen on an Amtran bus surveillance video picking up a wallet another passenger left on a seat and failing to turn it in has been identified.

Amani R. Williams, 23, was arraigned Friday by Magisterial District Judge Ben Jones on charges of theft of lost property and receiving stolen property.

According to charges filed by Altoona police, on Jan. 17, a man boarded the bus at Blair Candy in Altoona heading to Walmart.

The victim told police that when he got off the bus at Walmart, he discovered his wallet with $1,250 in cash, was missing. The victim contacted Amtran but was told nobody turned in a lost wallet.

Amtran officials reviewed the video from the bus and discovered the wallet had fallen out of the victim’s pocket onto the seat at the back of the bus. The video showed no other passengers went near the wallet the entire time the bus made its way back to the bus station on 11th Avenue.

While parked at the station, the video showed a woman later identified as Williams board the bus and walk directly to the back of the bus and pick up the wallet.

Williams is shown carrying the wallet to a row of seats in the center of the bus and taking and sitting down in an aisle seat on the driver’s side, placing the wallet on the empty seat beside her near the window.

Williams is then shown pulling the hood of her jacket over her head partially covering her face and then slides into the seat where the wallet is laying and begins to “surreptitiously” go through the contents of the wallet.

Police obtained a copy of the video, which they said was of “exceptional” quality and clarity and posted portions of it on the Altoona Police Department’s Facebook page seeking help to identify the suspect.

Police said they quickly received information identifying Williams as the suspect as well as where she works.

Williams turned herself in to police on Thursday and allegedly admitted being the person shown on the video picking up and moving the victim’s wallet but claimed she left it on the bus.

Police said Williams told them that she stuffed the wallet in the crack between two seats and then claimed it was under the seat.

Police showed Williams the video of her taking the wallet multiple times, but she continued to deny the theft.

When police showed Williams the portion of the video that shows her going through the contents of the wallet before concealing it on her person before leaving the bus, Williams claimed she was “playing with her underwear,” not going through the wallet as police alleged.

Police said Williams finally admitted that she had been lying and confessed to taking the wallet.

When asked where the wallet was, Williams allegedly told police she “threw it in some weeds” along Fairway Drive. Williams denied stealing the $1,250 from the wallet.

Police went to Fairway Drive to search for the wallet and located it in some weeds along the 3300 block. The victim’s driver’s license, Social Security card, health insurance card and credit cards were recovered, but the money was gone.

Williams was released on $15,000 unsecured bail. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for Wednesday in front of Jones.