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

DATE: THURSDAY, May 19, 1994                   TAG: 9405190173
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: C-2   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: MANCHESTER, KY.                                 LENGTH: Short

VINTON MAN ESCAPES FROM PRISON CAMP

A Vinton man serving a 90-month drug sentence walked away from a minimum-security, unfenced prison camp Tuesday and remained at large late Wednesday, according to the Kentucky Federal Corrections Institute.

Frank E. Pennington and another inmate at the camp, Walter McDonald Cook of Vanceburg, Ky., were discovered to be missing during a daily prisoner count at 4 p.m. Tuesday, said corrections institute Officer Curtis Lipps.

Pennington, 54, was convicted in Roanoke federal court of conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute marijuana and cocaine. He was sentenced in 1991 and was scheduled to be released Feb.1, 1998, Lipps said.

Cook, who also remained at large Wednesday, was serving a 37-month sentence for transporting stolen goods in Tennessee and was scheduled to be released in September 1995, Lipps said.

- From staff and wire reports

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