[Tlc] TLC-Roxanna Brown cause of death

[Charles Keyes]

The following is from today's Seattle Post-Intelligencer.

Biff (Charles) Keyes

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Last updated May 16, 2008 10:01 p.m. PT

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/363402_antiquities17.html

Cause of prison death determined 

Thai museum chief died from perforated ulcer

P-I STAFF AND NEWS SERVICES

An autopsy has shown that the incarcerated director of a Thai museum in Bangkok died at a federal prison in SeaTac of natural causes.

A spokeswoman for the King County Medical Examiner's Office said Friday that Roxanna Brown died of peritonitis, an infection caused by a perforated gastric ulcer.

The 62-year-old U.S. citizen died around 2:30 a.m. Wednesday at the Federal Detention Center while being held for investigation. 

Brown was the director of the Southeast Asian Ceramics Museum at Bangkok University in Thailand. Investigators accused her of allowing collectors to overstate the value of art donated to several Southern California museums and claim tax deductions.

Authorities arrested Brown last week while she was in Seattle visiting relatives. She was charged with one count of wire fraud.

Maggie Ogden, a spokeswoman for the Federal Detention Center, said Brown was booked May 9. 

She said all inmates coming into the facility are screened by medical staff, but she declined to speak specifically about Brown's case.

Brown's death is under investigation, she said.
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