National

Police Arrest B.C. Prison Escapee Serving Time For Alberta Arson, Manslaughter

The Canadian Press, 12 Feb, 2015 11:43 AM

VICTORIA — Police have arrested a 44-year-old inmate serving time for arson and manslaughter who escaped from a Vancouver Island prison on Tuesday afternoon.

Officers say Michael Sheets was found at a home in Victoria at about 10:30 p.m. Wednesday and was arrested without incident.

Assistant warden Anthony Baldo of the William Head Institution says Sheets was on an escorted absence when he escaped.

Sheets pleaded guilty and was sentenced in 2005 to more than 14 years in prison for helping firebomb a Calgary home in an arson that killed two children.

The court heard he was paid $60 and used the money to buy crack.

Prev Next

MORE National ARTICLES

Halifax: Blind Sailors Playing Key Role On Crews Competing At Disabled Sailing Championships

HALIFAX - Jim Kerr says he hadn't imagined that sailing would be the way he renewed his career in international athletics after losing his eyesight.

Halifax: Blind Sailors Playing Key Role On Crews Competing At Disabled Sailing Championships

Feds Stressed Fatigue, Workload Concerns Just Before Lac-Megantic Disaster

OTTAWA - A train operator's level of fatigue, sleep patterns and "ability to make effective, safe decisions" were among the risk factors singled out in Transport Canada guidelines for single-person train operations — advice that was finalized just months before the Lac-Megantic rail disaster.

Feds Stressed Fatigue, Workload Concerns Just Before Lac-Megantic Disaster

Canadian Military Drone Plan Grounded Amid Continuing Debate Over Fleet Needs

OTTAWA - The Canadian military's almost decade-long quest to buy unmanned aerial vehicles has been partly hung up by an internal debate about whether the air forces needs one — or two — different fleets of drones.

Canadian Military Drone Plan Grounded Amid Continuing Debate Over Fleet Needs

Liberals, NDP Plot To Storm Tories' Fortress Alberta In Next Federal Election

OTTAWA - Invading hordes of Liberal and New Democrat MPs will be doing some reconnaissance in Alberta over the next few weeks as their parties prepare plans to storm the Conservative bastion in the next federal election.

Liberals, NDP Plot To Storm Tories' Fortress Alberta In Next Federal Election

Questions remain about polygamy law as charges laid against men from B.C. sect

VANCOUVER - Legal experts say a criminal case involving a polygamous sect in B-C will probably reignite a debate over whether the ban on multiple marriages violates the right to religious freedom.

Questions remain about polygamy law as charges laid against men from B.C. sect

Feds Worried About Another 'Idle No More' After New Brunswick Fracking Protest

MONTREAL - Federal officials closely tracked the fallout of an RCMP raid on a First Nations protest against shale-gas exploration in New Brunswick, at one point raising concerns it could spawn another countrywide movement like Idle No More.