The State - News from May 8, 1987

Pleasanton federal prison officials repeatedly threatened to kill her, Dorinda Lopez said tearfully in San Francisco federal court as she sought to explain why her inmate-lover, Ronald McIntosh, rescued her in a dramatic helicopter escape last Nov. 5. Lopez, 37, who was serving a 50-year term for bank robbery, testified that Warden Rob Roberts was the first to threaten her in 1985 after she complained about conditions in the co-ed prison and said she was going to tell investigators that money had been misappropriated. She said one guard brandished a knife and another gave her a can of Coke that contained glass shards.