USA/FILE: "Barefoot Bandit" pleads guilty to burglary, theft

Record ID: 566403

  • Title: USA/FILE: "Barefoot Bandit" pleads guilty to burglary, theft
  • Date: 17th December 2011
  • Summary: HARBOUR ISLAND, BAHAMAS (JULY 11, 2010) (ORIGINALLY 4:3) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF HARRIS-MOORE BEING LED OUT OF HARBOUR ISLAND POLICE STATION IN SHACKLES HARRIS-MOORE BEING PUT INTO POLICE VAN HARRIS-MOORE GETTING OUT OF POLICE VAN AND BEING LED TO BOAT.
  • Embargoed: 1st January 2012 12:00
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  • Location: Usa, Bahamas
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  • Country: Usa Bahamas
  • Reuters ID: LVA4SLTKHWN11VKY3R0F7RHV97YE
  • Story Text: The 20-year-old serial burglar who gained international notoriety as the "Barefoot Bandit" for evading police in stolen planes and cars pleaded guilty on Friday (December 16) to over 30 charges stemming from his two-year crime spree.
    Standing with his wrists shackled, a pale-looking Colton Harris-Moore Harris-Moore spoke quietly as he formally entered those guilty pleas in a packed courtroom in Coupeville, Washington.
    Prosecutor Greg Banks told the judge, who is expected to sentence Harris-Moore on Friday, he was seeking nine years and eight months in prison for the defendant.
    The hearing caps months of bargaining between prosecutors and attorneys for the high school dropout and self-taught pilot, who stayed one step ahead of the law as he broke into dozens of homes and stole cars, boats and planes across nine states and British Columbia.
    Harris-Moore pleaded guilty on Friday to 32 charges, including residential burglary and attempting to elude police.
    He still faces up to 6-1/2 years in prison when he is sentenced in January in federal court.
    Captured in the Bahamas in July 2010 after crash-landing a stolen aircraft he had flown from Indiana, Harris-Moore pleaded guilty in June of this year to federal charges aimed at resolving all but the Washington state criminal cases pending against him.
    As part of that agreement, Harris-Moore forfeited his ability to profit from the rights to his life story. He also signed a movie deal with 20th Century Fox earmarking $1.3 million in proceeds as restitution to his victims.
    Harris-Moore, who grew up on Puget Sound's Camano Island, was identified by authorities as a suspect in a wave of crimes, including several plane thefts, after escaping from a juvenile detention center in April 2008.
    Shoeless footprints, some outlined in chalk, were left behind at the scenes of a number of his crimes, leading authorities to refer to him as the barefoot bandit.
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