A prosecutor says two of four Alabama fugitives captured after a weekend standoff in southwestern North Dakota are due in court to face charges of conspiracy to commit robbery.

One of the four was convicted in the 2003 slaying of a Limestone County man.

Henning said more charges are expected in connection with the escape.

Stark County, N.D., State’s Attorney Tom Henning says 26-year-old Joshua Southwick and 25-year-old Angela Mink are scheduled to appear in court via video on Monday afternoon. They are accused in the robbery of a Dickinson video store.

Authorities say Southwick and Mink’s brother, 22-year-old Ashton Mink, escaped from a prison in Uniontown, Ala., on May 25. Mink’s sister and his wife allegedly helped the men escape.

The four were arrested after a nearly 14-hour standoff on a ranch just outside Gladstone. Authorities say Ashton Mink and his wife, Jacquelin, were wounded in an exchange of gunfire and were hospitalized, with their conditions reported stable.

Southwick, a Michigan native, pleaded guilty in February 2007 to a murder-for-hire in which an Elkmont man was killed in 2003. Southwick received a life sentence for murder and 20 years for burglary in Limestone County Circuit Court in connection with the death of Michael Bryant, 21.

Southwick was one of three men accused in the plot to kill Bryant, but Ardmore resident Mark Anthony Angus was acquitted. The third man, James Mason Duncan of Arkansas, pleaded guilty to murder in Limestone County Circuit Court in April 2007 and was sentenced to life in prison. Bryant was shot execution style in a mobile home. Bryant’s teen girlfriend and members of her family were inside at the time.

The standoff

Police in Gladstone, N.D., were trying to capture suspects in a video store robbery who turned out to be four people wanted in an Alabama prison break. The suspects had holed up in a garage and held off authorities for more than 14 hours Saturday before two of them surrendered and two were wounded in a shootout with police.

Authorities on Saturday cordoned off the community of about 200 along Interstate 94, about 85 miles west of Bismarck. Some 40 officers had surrounded a ranch where two prison escapees and two women accused of helping them had made their stand with police. They also warned people to lock up in a place that usually doesn’t worry about security.