After more than 24 hours, the frantic manhunt for a prison escapee and his alleged accomplice came to an end Thursday when authorities announced the pair were arrested over 100 miles away.
Skylar Meade and Nicholas Umphenour were taken into custody in Twin Falls, Idaho, according to police, KTVB-TV, KBOI-TV, and CNN reported.
Umphenour was wanted on two charges of aggravated battery against law enforcement and one charge of aiding and abetting, in connection with Meade's prison break, which resulted in the shootings of three officers.
Authorities allege Umphenour helped facilitate Meade's "brazen" and "coordinated" escape from a Boise, Idaho, hospital in the middle of the night Wednesday, where the inmate was taken for treatment for a self-inflicted injury.
Umphenour is accused of firing on two Idaho Department of Corrections officers during the commission of the alleged breakout. A third officer was shot by a responding Boise cop, said police.
The pair of suspects fled in a gray Honda Civic.
They were apprehended Thursday afternoon, following a short pursuit, according to police.
Authorities announced they are also investigating two homicides in the nearby counties of Nez Perce and Clearwater for a possible connection to the suspects, KBOI reported
Meade was in the middle of serving a 20-year prison sentence for aggravated battery on a law enforcement officer with a firearm enhancement and was previously convicted of drug charges, grand theft, and introduction of contraband into a correctional facility, when he escaped, police said.
He had been locked up since October 2016 and his sentence was set to end in October 2036.
Umphenour and Meade previously met at the Idaho Maximum Security Institution. Both have ties to the Aryan Nations white supremacist group, investigators said.
