UPDATE: A convicted killer who escaped from Mission Institute on Saturday was arrested in Saanich early this morning.
Michael Douglas Sheets was found hiding in an out building in the 5800-block of Old East Road and was arrested by Saanich police and the Greater Victoria Emergency Response Team at 5:20 a.m.
Read the full story from the Times Colonist
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A search is underway in British Columbia for a man who walked away from a minimum-security prison while serving time for a firebombing that killed two children in Calgary.
The Correctional Service of Canada says Michael Sheets was reported missing from the Mission Institution on Saturday.
Michael Sheets is seen in this undated police handout photo. A search is underway in British Columbia for a man who has walked away from a minimum security prison while serving time for a firebombing that killed two children. The Correctional Service of Canada says Michael Sheets was reported missing from the minimum security unit at Mission Institution on Saturday. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO, Correctional Service of Canada *MANDATORY CREDIT*
The 48-year-old prisoner is serving a sentence of more than 14-years for manslaughter and arson for his role in the firebombing that killed a six-year-old boy and his four-year-old sister in 2004.
A release from the correctional service says an arrest warrant has been issued for Sheets, who may also use the name John Hala.
Sheets escaped from a Vancouver Island prison in 2015 but was quickly recaptured and was granted day parole last August.
A search also continues for another Mission Institution inmate — John Mackenzie — who was serving a life sentence for second-degree murder when he did not appear for a head count on Aug. 7.
