`similarities' Seen In Prescription-drug Deaths 
Law Enforcement 
Officials Gather Wednesday 
To Scrutinize Deaths 
Of Two Physicians' Wives

Anna Kaczmarek 
January 8, 1998 
Anna V. Kaczmarek, 93, A Guest At The Little Flower Manor In Wilkes-barre For 
The Past Two Years, Died Thursday At Penn State Geisinger Wyoming Valley 
Medical Center, Plains Township.

By CHRIS SCHNEIDMILLER; Times Leader Staff Writer
 Saturday, January 10, 1998 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Page: 1A 





WYOMING- Terry Lee Brown's alleged break for freedom from the State
Correctional Institution at Dallas lasted less than a day. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
 It could bring the 44-year-old inmate a prison sentence of more than 100
years. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; "Seemed like a good thing to do," Brown said as state police troopers
escorted him to his arraignment on escape and assault charges Friday morning. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
 Two undercover troopers acting on a tip found Brown at phone booth outside
a Sunoco gas station near the intersection of state routes 11 and 29 in
Plymouth Township at 5:35 a.m. Friday. He was less than five miles from the
prison. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
 His arrest ended a four-county alert that sounded at about 9 a.m. Thursday
when, officials said, he left a work detail outside the prison fence. His
capture also lifted the lock-down status at the prison at 10 a.m. Friday. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
 Arrest papers said he locked up two inmates, beat a prison employee, doused
the man with gasoline and threatened to torch him. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
 "Barry, if I have to kill you I will. I'm leaving; give me your keys.
Please, it's not worth it, give me your keys," Brown told employee James Ralph
Barry, the arrest papers said. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
 The men fought and Brown allegedly struck Barry with a two-by-four before
taking the man's personal keys. When Brown realized the keys would not lock
the door to the building where they fought, Brown came back a second time, and
allegedly beat Barry again to get the prison keys, the papers said. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
 Barry was treated at Wilkes-Barre General Hospital and released Thursday. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
 The flatbed truck driven by Brown from the prison was found at noon Friday
several miles away in a Plymouth Township creek, said state police Sgt.
Richard Krawetz. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
 Brown apparently spent much of his time walking in the woods along Route
29. State police said they believe he planned to return to Bradford County,
where he had resided. Brown said he planned to go "any place away from
Dallas." &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
 "He was out and about. To the best of our knowledge he was never in any
establishment or house," Krawetz said. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
 The inmate shaved his mustache, but was still wearing his prison clothes
when arrested. State police took Brown to the Wyoming barracks but got little
information from him, Krawetz said. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
 Just after noon Friday, Brown was arraigned on charges of escape, simple
assault, aggravated assault, assault by a prisoner, recklessly endangering
another person, terroristic threats, unlawful restraint, two counts of robbery
and three counts of theft. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
 The felonies and misdemeanors carry a combined penalty of 109 years in
prison. District Justice James Tupper of Dallas set Brown's bail at $500,000. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
 "I could set it at a dollar. You're not going anywhere," Tupper said. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
 Brown returned to the prison, where he was to be placed in a restricted
housing unit and kept in a cell 23 hours a day, said public information
officer Kenneth Burnett. He could be transferred to another prison, Burnett
said. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
 Brown was serving a sentence of three years, five months to seven years, 10
months for retail theft, resisting arrest and giving false statements to
authorities. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
 He is awaiting a Jan. 20 trial in federal court on weapons charges that
could lead to a mandatory minimum 15-year prison sentence. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
 It was the additional incarceration and Brown's wrong assumption federal
officials filed a detainer to keep him in custody pending the outcome of the
trial that spurred his flight, the arrest papers said. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
 U.S. Marshal Walter Sokolowski confirmed prison officials' claim there was
no detainer that would have made Brown ineligible for the outside work detail. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
 The federal government routinely seeks court orders to detain inmates
housed in local and state prisons, Sokolowski said. "Somehow there was a
glitch in the system," he said. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
 Without the detainer prison officials had no knowledge of the federal
charges, Burnett said. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
 But federal court records show an order from Oct. 25, 1996, directed the
prison warden to release Brown to the U.S. marshals for transport to a hearing
on charges from his indictment returned 10 days earlier. Burnett said no such
document was in Brown's prison file. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
 The file included information about Brown's 16 arrests in Bradford County
during the past 19 years, including one for attempting to take away a
sheriff's handgun during a struggle in May 1995. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
 "Nobody's here for going to Sunday church," Burnett said. He said Brown had
been a "model inmate" in his three years at the prison and earned the
opportunity to join the work detail. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
 Burnett dismissed union claims that the lack of manned security towers
aided the escape. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
 The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, which
represents prison employees, has criticized the October 1996 reduction of
manned towers from eight to four. A guard in deactivated Tower 5 would have
heard the escape and had a view of the site, union President William Lewis
said in a press release. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
 Burnett said a guard in Tower 6 had a direct view of the area from which
Brown escaped. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
 "It didn't prevent this from happening," Burnett said. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
 Lewis said the tower's view of the escape site was obstructed by a
five-story boiler plant building. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
 The prison is making security changes regarding the Outdoor Assignment
program, some beginning Friday, Burnett said. He declined to say which changes
would be made. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
 Chris Schneidmiller c

Tip Enables Escapee Arrest Say Police 
Terry Lee Brown Was 
Captured At Site Less Than 
Five Miles From State 
Correctional Institution At 
Dallas, Say Authorities

Tip Enables Escapee Arrest Say Police Terry Lee Brown Was Captured At Site Less Than Five Miles From State Correctional Institution At Dallas, Say Authorities