CALGARY – A Calgary convict who had escaped from a correctional institution in Victoria, British Columbia on Monday afternoon was captured Wednesday night.
Victoria Police located and arrested Michael Douglas Sheets in the 1500-block of Jubilee Avenue at approximately 10:30 p.m. after patrol members were “able to identify a possible residence where he may be,” according to Victoria police officer Mike Russell.
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Sheets was arrested without incident.
He had escaped from the William Head Institution “during an escorted temporary absence” Monday afternoon, according to assistant warden Anthony Baldo.
He has been serving a sentence of 14 years, two months for arson and manslaughter related to the deaths of 6-year-old Ali Al-Mayahi and his four-year-old sister Saja, who died after their Applewood townhouse was set on fire in November 2004.
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