By Milton J. Valencia
Boston Globe
He used the alias Thomas Brown. But the fugitive didn’t realize that the police chasing him were on to that.
On Sunday night, police in Georgia arrested Manson Brown, the 51-year-old Mattapan native who escaped from a Massachusetts prison in November after learning that he had been indicted on new charges of raping a Cambridge woman in 1996. The arrest brings to an end one of the state’s most notorious fugitive cases in recent time. It was noteworthy not only because of Brown’s alleged criminal history but also the way he escaped.
Due to miscommunication between jail officials and prosecutors, Brown was allowed to stay in a minimum security setting at Old Colony Correctional Center in Bridgewater after he was indicted, and he simply walked away after reading in a newspaper that he would face the new charges.
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