The director of a Bangkok museum, a renowned Asian-antiquities expert, has died in a US jail after being arrested in Seattle by federal agents investigating illegal trafficking of pilfered Southeast Asian art. Roxanna Brown, 62, director of the Southeast Asian Ceramics Museum at Bangkok University, was found dead about 2.30am on Wednesday (4.30pm Thai time), Federal Detention Center spokeswoman Maggie Ogden said.
Ms Brown, a US citizen, was arrested on Friday in Seattle, where she was due to speak at the University of Washington.
told the Bangkok Post.

The director of the Southeast Asian Ceramics Museum at Bangkok University had been implicated in a scheme to smuggle looted antiquities from Thailand to L.A.-area museums.
By Bob Pool, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
rian put it to the Bangkok Post.

The scholar, a US citizen who was director of a university museum in Thailand, had faced charges related to a smuggling case, but her university denied that

AP The director of a Thailand museum who was indicted as part of a federal investigation into looted antiquities has been found dead at the Federal