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Convicted murderer captured after escaping from Mission prison

Click to play video: 'Convict Michael Sheets walks away from Fraser Valley prison'
Convict Michael Sheets walks away from Fraser Valley prison
Michael Douglas Sheets has walked away from prison, and it's not the first time. Paul Johnson has more – Sep 2, 2018

Correctional Service Canada (CSC) is looking into how an inmate escaped from the Mission Institution minimum security unit Saturday night.

Around 7 p.m. staff members discovered that Michael Douglas Sheets was not accounted for.

He was recaptured Tuesday, Sept. 4.

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Sheets is serving a sentence of 14 years and six months for manslaughter, arson, escape, and other offences.

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A warrant for his arrest was issued.

It is not known where he was recaptured.

A man by the same name escaped from a correctional institution in Victoria back in 2015.

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CSC is investigating how Sheets escaped.

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