$880,000 Seattle Wrongful Death Settlement

Seattle, WA–The Seattle Times reported  the federal government agreed to pay an $880,000 settlement for the death of an Asian-antiquities expert.

The expert, 62 year-old Roxanna Brown, died last year at the Federal Detention Center in SeaTac. Brown worked in Thailand as the director of Bangkok University’s Southeast Asian Ceramics Museum. She had travelled to Seattle to speak at a lecture at the University of Washington’s Asian art symposium. On May 9, 2008, Brown was arrested in Seattle on a count of wire-fraud out of Los Angeles, California. The antiquities expert was held at the Federal Detention Center at SeaTac located in Seattle, Washington. Brown died on May 14 of peritonitis, which was the result of a medically untreated perforated gastric ulcer. Peritonitis is a massive infection and inflammation of the intestines and stomach, considered a medical emergency and left untreated typically results in death.

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