The double life of Sutherland Group's Lee C. MacGyver

Last Friday night, there was a stag and doe planned at the Knights of Columbus Hall for Lee MacGyver and his fiancee Clorissa (Saylor) Boyer.

There was a deejay and karaoke and an open bar and the party was set to go until 1 a.m.

Lee MacGyver didn't show.

That's because the Sutherland Group supervisor and former NuComm International employee was behind bars.

After 20 years living in Canada under a new name, the man formerly known as Joseph Mitchell Connolly was arrested last week in the Michigan Soo on Florida warrants for attempted second-degree murder and attempted robbery.

Around the Sutherland Group call centre, MacGyver is remembered as a nice guy, a team lead who'd become a supervisor.

He looked way nicer, co-workers say, than he appears in this 1984 mug shot from the Fort Lauderdale Police Department.

And friends were puzzled when they got the wedding invitations and they referred to the guy everyone knew as MacGyver as some "Mitchell Connolly."

Indeed, it was an apparent alias used by MacGyver that first attracted the attention of U.S. Customs officers at 1:45 p.m. last Thursday at the International Bridge.

The story of MacGyver's double life in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario and his current legal status is still unfolding, but here's what's known so far:

- Joseph Mitchell Connolly, the name under which MacGyver used to live at his last known address of 1271 NE 211 Terrace North in Miami, was wanted by police in Broward County, Florida on warrants believed to date back to the 1980s

- described as dangerous, with scars on his forehead and left and right arms, Connolly was on the Florida Department of Law Enforcement's THUGS (Taking Hoodlums Using Guns Seriously) list, which offers $5,000 rewards for information leading to the arrest of fugitive felons with existing violent crime warrants involving firearms

- Connolly's previous criminal charges in Florida included attempted armed robbery, attempted homicide and possession of a firearm during a felony

- he told law enforcement officials that he'd moved to Canada in 1985 and changed his name, admitting that he was wanted in connection with a Florida shooting

- SooToday.com has so far tonight been unable to determine Connolly/MacGyver's current whereabouts. In a brief item that mentioned the arrest last week, the Soo Evening News indicated that "it was not clear from reports if Broward County officials agreed to pick up their prisoner on the 1985 warrant."

- the Broward County Sheriff's Office had no record tonight of MacGyver having arrived back there, and SooToday.com was unable to reach anyone tonight at the Chippewa County Jail, where he's believed to have spent the weekend