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New charges for 'Barefoot Bandit' in plane theft
MOUNT VERNON, Wash. (AP) - The legal troubles aren't over for the 'Barefoot Bandit' who led police on a two-year crime spree in stolen boats, cars and planes.
Colton Harris-Moore is already serving a seven-year prison term and now faces new theft and burglary charges in Washington.
The 21-year-old pleaded guilty to state and federal charges stemming from a 2010 cross-country run that took him from the Pacific Northwest to the Bahamas, where he was arrested in a hail of bullets.
The Skagit County prosecutor declined to sign on to the plea agreement resolving state charges and this month filed new charges. Harris-Moore is accused of stealing a plane belonging to an Anacortes couple and flying it to the Orcas Island airport.
This July 2009 file self-portrait provided by the Island County Sheriff's Office shows Colton Harris-Moore. Bahamas police captured the teenage U.S. fugitive on Sunday, July 11, 2010 bringing to an end the 'Barefoot Bandit's' two-year flight from U.S. justice. (AP Photo/Island County Sheriff's Office via The Herald, File)
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