MACE ATTACK ON OFFICER IS ADMITTED

                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: WEDNESDAY, January 27, 1993                   TAG: 9301270276
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B3   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: JESSICA MARTIN STAFF WRITER
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MACE ATTACK ON OFFICER IS ADMITTED
Mary Cannon Brown was running from the law - and haunting memories - when a Roanoke County patrolman pulled her car over last November.
Brown twice sprayed Mace into Officer Larry Vance's face and attempted to flee on foot before she was subdued by other officers.
Brown, who is wanted for traffic offenses in North Carolina, said she was terrified of police because she is on parole.
The circumstances that drove Brown to attack Vance were recounted Tuesday in Roanoke County Circuit Court, where she pleaded guilty to illegal use of tear gas.
Brown served six months in a North Carolina jail in 1989 for two counts of vehicular manslaughter because she was the driver in a car accident that left her boyfriend and son dead.
Roanoke Detective Rick Moorer, who saw a videotape of the crash scene, said it was so bad, "by all rights she should have died in that wreck."
Brown said she attacked Vance because she didn't want to go back to jail in North Carolina, where she said she was treated inhumanly.
Brown, 26, will be sentenced in Roanoke County on Feb. 24.

by Bhavesh Jinadra by CNB