{"id":27405,"date":"2024-03-22T06:51:29","date_gmt":"2024-03-22T10:51:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=27405"},"modified":"2024-03-22T06:51:29","modified_gmt":"2024-03-22T10:51:29","slug":"escaped-prisoner-and-suspected-accomplice-from-white-supremacist-gang-caught-after-manhunt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2024\/03\/22\/escaped-prisoner-and-suspected-accomplice-from-white-supremacist-gang-caught-after-manhunt\/","title":{"rendered":"Escaped prisoner and suspected accomplice from white supremacist gang caught after manhunt"},"content":{"rendered":"

An escaped prisoner and his alleged accomplice, both members of a white supremacist gang, have been arrested by police in the US after a massive manhunt.<\/p>\n

Skylar Meade, the escaped inmate, and Nicholas Umphenour, the man police say shot two Idaho corrections officers to break Meade out of custody, were arrested on Thursday afternoon after a car chase.<\/p>\n

Officials said they were caught roughly 12 hours after Meade had escaped from a hospital in Boise after Umphenour started shooting at prison officers who were taking Meade back to jail.<\/p>\n

One of the officers shot is in a critical but stable condition, while the second has serious injuries that are not life-threatening.<\/p>\n

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The escape was staged from the Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center in Boise, Idaho. (Image: AP)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

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A third corrections officer appears to have been shot by a responding police officer who mistook him for the gunman.<\/p>\n

After Meade and Umphenour were found in Twin Falls, about 130 miles south-east of Boise, police said they were also investigating two murders that could be linked to the pair.<\/p>\n

Idaho State Police Lieutenant Colonel Sheldon Kelley said the suspects were found driving a Honda Civic that belonged to one of the victims and that shackles were found at the scene of one of the killings.<\/p>\n

Meade was sentenced to 20 years in prison in 2017 for shooting at a sheriff’s sergeant during a high-speed chase.<\/p>\n

He had been in a type of solitary confinement because he was deemed a severe security risk.<\/p>\n

Umphenour was released from the same prison –\u00a0Idaho<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0Maximum Security Institution – in January.<\/p>\n

Authorities said the two were housed together at times, had mutual friends and were both members of the Aryan Knights prison gang.<\/p>\n

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Nicholas Umphenour. (Image:<\/span> Boise Police Department via AP)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

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According to the US attorney’s office in Idaho, the Aryan Knights gang was formed in the mid-1990s to organise crime for its members in and outside of jail.<\/p>\n

When one of the gang’s leaders was jailed for life in 2021 over a plot to traffic drugs and use violence to collect unpaid debts, federal prosecutors described the group as a “hate-fuelled gang (that engages) in many types of criminal activity and casts shadows of intimidation, addiction and violence over prison life”.<\/p>\n

Source: \u00a0\"Sky<\/a> news.sky.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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