Local News in Brief : Suspect in Escape Returning to Florida
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A medical office assistant agreed Tuesday to return to Florida to face charges of plotting to help one of the country’s most notorious “technobandits” in a foiled helicopter escape from prison.
Margaret Winget, 41, appeared before a federal magistrate in Los Angeles and agreed to return to Tallahassee to fight charges that she helped Werner Bruchhausen try to escape from prison there Aug. 28. Bruchhausen, 48, is serving a 15-year term for diverting more than $6 million worth of computer and military communications equipment to Soviet bloc countries.
Winget, who has been free on $50,000 bond since shortly after her arrest Aug. 29, is accused of relaying phone calls about the escape plan from Bruchhausen’s sister, Barbara Drost, to a man named Edward P. Vaughn between Aug. 23 and Aug. 28.
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