A judge on Friday ordered the arrest of a woman previously accused of drowning her dog at Orlando International Airport after she missed a court hearing in her animal cruelty case.

Alison Agatha Lawrence, 57, of Clermont, is accused by Orlando police of killing Tywinn — a 9-year-old white miniature Schnauzer — in an airport bathroom Dec. 16 before her flight to Bogota, Colombia, because she couldn’t take the dog on the flight, according to arrest records.

Lawrence was arrested in March and later released on bond. She was charged with animal cruelty with intent to torture and evidence tampering, to which she pleaded not guilty. She had a court hearing scheduled for Friday morning to discuss her request to be declared indigent for court costs.

But records show she failed to appear, caus

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