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Port Perry Star, 25 Oct 1994, p. 1

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Np a. T-r . _-_--re ve BST Vol. 128 No. 49 PORT PERRY, ONTARIO - TUESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1994 Copy 65¢ ¢1¢ + 4¢GSD 44 Pages TOWN IN SHOCK AFTER SHOOTOUT Three police officers, two civilians shot in vicious robbery J. PETER HVIDSTEN / PORT PERRY STAR A wounded Durham Regional Police officer is treated behind the wheel of his cruiser by ambulance attendants following a dramatic shoot-out in Port Perry Plaza about 7:30 p.m. last Thursday evening. Three police officers, a bank manager and a real estate agent were wounded when two men began shooting at police following a robbery at the Bank of Montreal in the plaza. Constable Warren Ellis, 28, (inset) was shot in the head and is reported in satisfactory condition in Sunnybrook Health Science Centre, Toronto. By Kelly Lown served time for the shooting of a plainclothes Metro policeman WO m e n Port Perry Star in 1977. He was out or prison on statutory release after serving Two brothers, one a convicted criminal, are facing 21 charges two-thirds of a sentence which would have been up in 1999. in connection with Thursday night's shootings of three police While in prison in 1990 Micky McArthur wrote a book entitled officers, a bank manager and a real estate agent in the Port "I'd Rather Be Wanted Than Had," The Memoirs of an sted Perry Plaza. Unrepentant Bank Robber. Mitchell (Micky) McArthur, 42, who has served time for Durham Regional Police, crediting tips from the public attempted murder and armed robbery, as well as escaping from through the media coverage, alerted Kingston police just after prison on six different occasions, was arrested Friday, along with 4a.m. Friday that the suspects may be in the Kingston area. - his brother Angus, 28, in two separate raids on two homes in Mitchell was arrested just prior to 8 a.m. and his brother at 0 n ri ay Kingston. 10:30 a.m.. A third party, Mitchell's girlfriend, has been charged Micky, described by Toronto media as a "cop-hater" has Turn to page 2

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