Just getting my footing here with the news cycle and such, this one caught my interest from ABC News:
So Hollywood is planning on using this 'barefoot bandit' kid's story for the big screen? I guess, at least he's not a south American communist dictator profiled as a hero.Colton Harris-Moore, the 19-year-old suspected felon and cult hero , who police say has a penchant for stealing boats and planes, could be a suspect in the nabbing a Cessna 400 from a rural Indiana airport on Sunday. The plane crashed in the shallow waters off the Bahamian coast hours later.
The FBI Assistant Special Agent Steven Dean told ABCNews.com that they don't have concrete evidence that Harris-Moore was behind the theft, but it's likely.
"He was moving in that general area and he's stolen airplanes before and he's crash landed them like this," Dean said.
The FBI, which has been tracking Harris-Moore for about a year, is offering a $10,000 reward for information leading to his arrest.
"He went from being a regional nuisance to an international problem," Dean said.
Monroe County Sheriff's Office Chief Michael Pershing said today that he didn't even know who Harris-Moore was or anything about his fabled exploits until they were tipped off by a police department in Illinois where authorities think the 19-year-old high school dropout may have stolen a car he used to drive to the airport in Indiana.
Here are some pictures of this 19 year old thief, barefoot bandit Colton Harris-Moore:
And more information at Wikipedia here.
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