2 members of an Idaho white supremacist jail gang, consisting of a prisoner and the guy implicated of assisting him get away in an armed ambush at a Boise medical facility, are due in court for an initial hearing Monday, together with a female implicated of offering a car they utilized throughout 36 hours on the run.
The prisoner, Skylar Meade, and Nicholas Umphenour, who authorities state opened fire on corrections officers transferring Meade from the health center last month, both have actually been charged in the escape, together with Tia Garcia, who is implicated of incorrectly reporting her cars and truck taken simply after the attack.
Umphenour in addition deals with 3 counts of intensified battery on an officer and utilizing a lethal weapon in the commission of a felony, charges coming from the ambush.
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Meade and Umphenour, who are each being hung on $2 million bail, likewise are presumed in the deaths of 2 males in Clearwater and Nez Perce counties, about a seven-hour drive north of where they were detained in Twin Falls, Idaho.
The murder victims have actually been determined as James L. Mauney, 83, of Juliaetta, Idaho, who was reported missing out on when he stopped working to return from strolling his pets, and Gerald Don Henderson, 72, who was discovered dead outside his remote cabin near Orofino, Idaho.
Henderson had actually taken in Umphenour for about a month when he remained in his late teenagers, according to authorities. Cops stated Umphenour and Meade took Mauney’s minivan and utilized it to get to the Twin Falls location.
A police car is seen outside Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center in Boise, Idaho, on March 20, 2024, after a member of an Idaho white supremacist jail gang assisted another member escape authorities custody in an armed ambush at the Boise healthcare facility. (Sarah A. Miller/Idaho Statesman by means of AP, File)
Idaho Department of Correction authorities have actually stated Meade and Umphenour are members of the Aryan Knights white supremacist jail gang, which federal district attorneys have actually referred to as a “scourge” in the state’s penitentiary system.
Meade, 31, was serving 20 years at the Idaho Maximum Security Institution in Kuna, south of Boise, for shooting at a constable’s sergeant throughout a chase. Umphenour was launched from the exact same lockup in January after serving time for theft and weapon convictions.
The 2 were at times housed together and had shared good friends in and out of jail, authorities stated. Meade just recently had actually been kept in holding cell since authorities considered him a security danger.
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The attack on the corrections officers came simply after 2 a.m. on March 20 in the ambulance bay of Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical. Meade was given the health center previously in the night since he hurt himself, authorities stated, however he declined treatment upon arrival.
