BOISE – A woman who was charged in connection to aiding and abetting two men in a prison break at a Boise hospital earlier this year was sentenced to prison.
On Friday, Tia Garcia was sentenced in an Ada County courtroom to 25 years in prison for aiding and abetting and persistent violator charges. She assisted in the escape of Skylar Meade, an Idaho Department of Correction (IDOC) inmate who was being treated at Saint Alphonsus in Boise.
Court documents obtained by KTVB show Garcia picked up Nicholas Umphenour, who acted as Meade’s accomplice in the officer ambush, from the Boise Airport on March 17. She also provided Umphenour and Meade with the getaway vehicle, a Honda Civic registered to her name…