Two members of a white supremacist prison gang in Idaho, including an inmate and a man accused of helping them escape in an armed ambush at a Boise hospital, are charged with providing a vehicle to an inmate. The accused woman is scheduled to appear for a preliminary hearing on Monday. It was used during a 36-hour escape.
Inmates Skyler Meade and Nicholas Amphenol, who fired at the correctional officer transporting Meade from the hospital last month, are charged with escape, and Tia Garcia also falsely claimed her car was stolen shortly after fleeing. He has been charged with making a report. attack.
Amfenour is also charged with three counts of aggravated assault and use of a deadly weapon against a police officer in a felony stemming from the ambush.
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Mead and Amphenol, who are each being held on $2 million bail, have arrested two men in Clearwater County and Nez Perce County, about a seven-hour drive north of where they were arrested in Twin Falls, Idaho. He is also suspected of murder.
The murder victims were James L. Mauney, 83, of Juliaetta, Idaho, who went missing after failing to return from walking his dog and was found dead outside a secluded cabin near Orofino. He has been identified as Gerald Don Henderson, 72, who was found dead. ,Idaho.
Authorities said Henderson took in Unfenur for about a month when she was in her late teens. Police said Amphenol and Meade stole Mauney’s minivan and used it to travel to the Twin Falls area.
A police vehicle is seen outside St. Alphonsus Regional Medical Center in Boise, Idaho, on March 20, 2024. After members of a white supremacist prison gang in Idaho helped another member escape from police custody in an armed ambush at a Boise hospital. (Sarah A. Miller/Idaho Statesman, Associated Press, File)
Officials with the Idaho Department of Corrections say Meade and Amphenol are members of the Aryan Knights, a white supremacist prison gang that federal prosecutors have described as a “scourge” in the state’s prison system.
Meade, 31, was serving 20 years at the Idaho Maximum Security Institute in Kuna, south of Boise, for fatally shooting a sheriff’s sergeant during a chase. Amphenol was released from the same jail in January after serving time for theft and gun convictions.
Officials said the two were sometimes incarcerated together and had mutual friends in and out of prison. Meade had recently been in solitary confinement because authorities deemed him a safety risk.
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The attack on the correctional officer occurred shortly after 2 a.m. on March 20 in the ambulance bay at St. Alphonsus Regional Medical Center. Officials said Meade was taken to a hospital early in the evening for his injuries, but refused medical treatment upon arrival.
Two correctional officers were injured in the attack, and a third was shot and killed by responding officers who mistook him for the gunman. All are expected to recover.
Investigators say another person has been charged in connection with the escape. Tonia Hoover was driving the truck Meade was in when he was arrested, police said. Huber is charged with harboring a fugitive, eluding police and drug possession.
