A prison inmate who is serving time for a 1993 murder sentence was being sought by police Thursday after he walked away from an Anchorage drug treatment center earlier this week.
Scott Brodine, 50, left the Clitheroe Center in East Anchorage around 8:30 a.m. Wednesday, according to the Anchorage Police Department.
Megan Edge, a spokeswoman for the Department of Corrections, said there was no indication Brodine posed any danger to the public. When he disappeared, Brodine was about two weeks away from finishing a 90-day drug addiction treatment program at the Clitheroe Center, according to Edge.
Edge could not immediately explain how Brodine developed an active drug addiction while serving a decades-long state prison sentence.
She said his placement at the Clitheroe Center, which is run by Salvation Army Alaska, was in line with the corrections department's policy on furloughs, where an inmate who is close to finishing their sentence is released into a halfway house or residential program to help them reintegrate into society. Such facilities are minimum-security — it's possible to walk out the door without being stopped, though doing so is a crime.
Brodine was set to go on discretionary parole in October 2019, according to Edge.
"Murder charges don't disqualify you from furlough placement," Edge said.
Edge said corrections officials were working with police to find Brodine as soon as possible. A warrant has been issued for his arrest.
Brodine was convicted of killing his roommate, Milton Termini, in an apartment on West Northern Lights Boulevard early the morning of Dec. 7, 1993. Prosecutors said Brodine got in an argument with Termini after coming home from a night out drinking and using drugs, then beat him to death.
Police asked anyone with information about Brodine's whereabouts to call 311 and select option 1.