Idaho inmate, accomplice due in court following hospital ambush of police that facilitated escape

Idaho inmate Skylar Meade and alleged accomplice in the ambush that allowed him to escape from police at a Boise hospital, Nicholas Umphenour, are due in court.

Umphenour additionally faces three counts of aggravated battery on an officer and using a deadly weapon in the commission of a felony, charges stemming from the ambush.

Meade and Umphenour, who are each being held on $2 million bail, also are suspected in the deaths of two men in Clearwater and Nez Perce counties, about a seven-hour drive north of where they were arrested in Twin Falls, Idaho.