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Sheriff says Alabama escapee out of hospital

Authorities say one of four Alabama fugitives has been transferred from a Dickinson hospital to jail. Ashton Mink was arrested after a nearly 14-hour standoff June 6, on a ranch south of Gladstone. Authorities say Mink and his wife, Jacquelin, we...

Angela Mink
This undated photo released by the Alabama Department of Corrections shows Angela Diana Mink, who according to a U.S. Marshall, helped 22-year-old Ashton Kenny Chase Mink and 26-year-old Joshua Loyd Southwick escape Thursday from a private prison in Perry County, Ala. Inspector Ross Herbert with the Gulf Coast Regional Fugitive Task Force said 25-year-old Angela Diana Mink, Ashton Mink's sister, and 25-year-old Jacquelin Rae Kennamer Mink, his wife, are accused of cutting the holes in three perimeter fen...

Authorities say one of four Alabama fugitives has been transferred from a Dickinson hospital to jail.

Ashton Mink was arrested after a nearly 14-hour standoff June 6, on a ranch south of Gladstone. Authorities say Mink and his wife, Jacquelin, were wounded in an exchange of gunfire.

Stark County Sheriff Clarence Tuhy said Ashton Mink was released Tuesday from a Dickinson hospital and taken to jail. He is awaiting a bail hearing.

Jacquelin Mink is hospitalized in Bismarck.

The couple along with Ashton Mink's sister Angela and Joshua Southwick, face charges of conspiracy to commit murder and conspiracy to commit robbery. They are accused of robbing a movie store in Dickinson and shooting at a Highway Patrol trooper.

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Authorities say Southwick and Ashton Mink escaped from an Alabama prison in May and that Angela and Jacquelin Mink helped them.

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