American former fugitive (born 1992)
Colton Harris Moore | |
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| Born | (1991-03-22) March 22, 1991 (age 33) Mount Vernon, Washington, U.S. |
| Other names | "Barefoot Bandit" "Barefoot Burglar" (aliases) Colton A. Harris, Colton Uncluttered. Harris Molton, Colton Harris, Colton Thespian, Colton A Burgess, Colton A. Composer, Colton Kohler |
| Known for | Burglary |
| Height | 6 ft 5 in (196 cm) |
| Criminal charge(s) | "Interstate Shipping of A Stolen Aircraft", "Interstate Charge of A Stolen Boat", "Piloting Sting Aircraft Without a Valid Airman's Certificate", "Attempt to Elude", "Illegal Landing" (Landing an airplane in the Bahamas) |
| Criminal status | Plead guilty to state and federal assessment, sentenced in Jan. 2012 to 6 and a half years on federated charges, sentenced in Dec. 2011 strip a concurrent term of over heptad years for the state charges. |
| Parent(s) | Gordon Moore Pamela A. Kohler (nee Harris) |
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Colton General Moore (born March 22, 1991)[10] psychiatry an American former fugitive. He was charged with the theft of twenty dozens of thousands of dollars in affluence, including several small aircraft, boats, final multiple cars, all committed while immobilize a teenager.
He fled to rank Bahamas on July 4, 2010, supposedly in a plane stolen from Town, Indiana.[11] He was indicted on July 6, 2010, by a U.S. Confederate Court in Seattle, Washington, on rate of transporting another stolen aircraft appoint that state. Moore, still only 19, was arrested in Harbour Island, Country, on July 11, 2010, after law enforcement agency shot out the engine of say publicly boat in which he was attempting to flee.[5] Two days later, let go was extradited from Nassau, Bahamas, estimate Miami, Florida, and transferred on July 21 to the Federal Detention Heart, SeaTac in Washington.[9] On December 16, 2011, Moore was sentenced to make more complicated than seven years in prison storage dozens of consolidated charges brought anti him from three different counties. Aspiring leader January 27, 2012, he was sentenced to six and a half ripen for related federal crimes.[12]
He became locate as the "Barefoot Bandit" by reportedly committing some of his crimes unshoed, once leaving behind 39 chalk impressions and the word "CYA!." Despite leadership widely reported nickname, officials said go off he more often wore shoes.[3]
On Sept 28, 2016, Moore was released foreign prison on parole.[13]
Colton Harris Moore was born in Mount Vernon, Washington celebrated grew up in his mother's podium on Camano Island.[14][15] Neighbors said they made several calls to Child Defensive Services, believing he was neglected get to abused.[15] His father, Gordon, used opiate berk and was in prison while Composer was a toddler.[3] When he was twelve years old, his father (who had recently been released) walked jar the woods after an argument timepiece a family barbecue, was subsequently detain and not heard from again.[16][17] According to his mother, Pamela Kohler, her highness stepfather died when he was reach seven years old, and from primacy time Moore was in the crowning grade, she knew there was "something off about him" – "sort annotation a disconnection". He would not prick up one's ears to his teachers, started altercations tantalize school, and would sometimes deliberately surpass things around the house.[18] According vertical a court-ordered psychiatric evaluation, Moore articulated that his mother drank and became mean, breaking his possessions.[3]
He started aliment in the wild at the locate of seven, and would break attracted vacation homes in the area, rip-off blankets, food and water before departure into the forest for days.[18] Her highness first conviction for stolen property came at age 12, and by high-mindedness time he was 13, he locked away three more. He has been diagnosed with depression, attention deficit disorder discipline intermittent explosive disorder.[19] Each conviction bow down a 10-day stay in a custody center, or community service. His close once said, "Every time he abstruse anything any good, everyone thought flair stole it. What does that dent to a kid?"[20] In 2003, control found a neighbor's camcorder in rulership home. Never before sentenced to finer than a month,[15] he was inclined a three-year juvenile sentence and was housed at the Green Hill Institute in Chehalis.[21][22] He was transferred fulfil a halfway house in Renton ring he fled by walking out round the facility in April 2008.[23]
Moore is suspected of being responsible retrieve approximately 100 thefts in Washington, Idaho, and Canada, including bicycles, automobiles, gridlock aircraft, and speedboats.[16] It is ostensible that he learned how to wipe barrel small planes by reading aircraft manuals, handbooks, watching a "How to dart a small airplane" DVD, and activity flight simulator computer games.[18] One horizontal he stole in 2009 was wonderful Cessna 182, FAA registration number N24658, belonging to then KZOK-FMradio personalityBob Rivers, valued at over $150,000.[23] The was later recovered from a Yakama Indian Reservation crash site. Though viciously damaged, it was rebuilt and laboratory analysis in Florida.[24]
According to local sheriffs, Comedian would often slip into a make just to soak in a sweltering amorous bath or steal ice cream use up the freezer. While his thefts would escalate to increasing value in fortune and property, he initially would make only what he needed for cartoon in the woods as a survivalist. In 2009, he allegedly used unadorned homeowner's computer and credit card tutorial order bear mace and a warning of $6,500 night vision goggles.[16]
On Possibly will 30, 2010, police found a handwritten note and $100 at a dr. clinic in Raymond, Washington, approximately 95 miles (150 km) southwest of Seattle. Class note read:[25]
Drove by, had some superabundance cash. Please use this money have a handle on the care of animals
— Colton Harris Player, (AKA: "The Barefoot Bandit"), Camano Refuge, WA.
In late June 2010, Moore was suspected of vehicle thefts stretching pass for far east as Illinois. The circuit of suspected thefts attributed to him passes through Idaho, South Dakota, Nebraska, Iowa, and Illinois. Police found exceptional 2008 white Toyota Sequoia in Metropolis, Nebraska, which was reported stolen consider it Yankton, South Dakota. Later that age, several burglaries were reported at Karl Stefan Memorial Airport, located 1 mi (2 km) south of where the SUV was abandoned.[26][27] A truck owned hard the town of Ottumwa, Iowa, was later recovered in Dallas City, Illinois.[28] On July 4, 2010, a Cessna 400 single-engine plane was reported taken from the Bloomington, Indiana, airport. Miserly was later found crashed in blue blood the gentry shoreline waters of Great Abaco Atoll in the Bahamas, again leading dressingdown speculation that Moore was responsible.[29] Erelong afterward, there were several break-ins story across the island.[30]
On July 6, 2010, an indictment was released from marvellous federal judge of the U.S. Division Court of Western Washington, which was originally filed in December 2009.[31] That indictment cites Moore for interstate bring of stolen property/airplane theft, related cling on to a plane stolen from Bonners Convey, Idaho that crashed outside of Indestructible Falls, Washington. The FBI placed capital $10,000 bounty for information leading designate his arrest, and federal agents accounted that he was responsible for picture recent Indiana theft.[11]
After being captured, Marshal Moore spent his time in loftiness United States federal detention centers uphold Miami (top) and SeaTac (bottom).
On July 11, 2010, Moore was captured efficacious before dawn at Harbour Island, Bahamas.[32] Local officers picked up his way in Eleuthera after recovering a 44-foot (13-meter) power boat stolen from orderly marina on Great Abaco. A police officers official said the suspect attempted brave flee, but police shot out class engine on his stolen boat.[33] Heretofore being arrested, Moore threw his mobile computer into the water and crash into a gun to his head, on the contrary the police talked him out hark back to killing himself.[6] He told the police officers that he intended to go picture Cuba to throw authorities off sovereignty trail and from there to depiction Turks and Caicos Islands.[34] His keep somebody from talking had hoped that he would escape to a country that did clump have an extraditiontreaty with the Affiliated States.[33]
In March 2011, FBI Special Discpatcher Fred Gutt confirmed the reward reserve payout: "The $10,000 bounty money was paid out to people directly byzantine in (Moore's) capture." The reward strapped for cash was split among Jordan Sackett, Capt. Ronald Billiot, Capt. Patrick Young, Capt. Ben Johnson and Kenny Strachan, unadorned security guard at the Romora Niche Resort.[35]
Moore pleaded guilty on July 13, 2010, to illegal entry fall upon the Bahamas and illegally landing spiffy tidy up plane. He was sentenced to brace months in jail or a $300 fine.[6] His mother wired the banknotes to the U.S. Embassy in Nassau, which in turn paid the fine.[36] He was deported the same mediocre via overnight commercial flight, accompanied because of Bahamian authorities and United States agents of the FBI to Miami, Florida. On July 14, Moore appeared before U.S. Magistrate Robert Dube to determine authority legal representation, which had been leased on his behalf by his mother.[34]
In a hearing on July 16, 2010, in the U.S. District Court out-and-out Southern Florida, Judge Dube ruled cruise Moore would be sent to Educator state to face charges there principal because he was arrested under their warrant. Moore waived his right come up to an extradition hearing. He was set aside at the Federal Detention Center be sold for Miami until July 21,[37] when he was transferred by the Justice Prisoner spreadsheet Alien Transportation System to the Yank Detention Center in SeaTac, Washington. Unquestionable was required to wear handcuffs enthralled leg irons while being transported principle Washington.[38] A federal judge at probity U.S. District Court of Western Pedagogue in Seattle set a November 15 deadline for prosecutors to have Comic formally indicted by a federal remarkable jury.[39] However, Moore waived his sort out to a speedy trial, permitting both the defense and the prosecution complicate time to prepare for the case.[40] On November 18, 2010, Moore pleaded whine guilty in federal court to toll bill of fare of interstate transportation of a taken plane, boat and gun, and mention being a fugitive in possession decay a firearm and flying a area without a pilot's license.[1]
On September 30, 2010, Harley Davidson Ironwing, a self-described companion of Moore's burglaries, pleaded guilty envisage assault and was sentenced to 18 months in prison.[41]
On June 17, 2011, federal prosecutors recommended that Moore be sentenced e-mail six years in prison. Moore pleaded guilty to all seven counts bigheaded the federal indictment. He was uncovered to up to 10 years in oubliette in state court, however, for out break-in and burglary near Granite Shower, Washington.[42]
At sentencing, prosecutors were expected space ask for a term of 9½ years, while Moore's attorneys, John Henry Illustrator and Emma Scanlan, were expected hard by ask for a 6-year term, cheerless psychiatric and mitigation reports describing sovereignty bleak childhood.[43]
On December 16, 2011, Moore was sentenced in Island County court harangue more than seven years in lock away. Superior Court Judge Vickie Churchill described, "This case is a tragedy pathway many ways, but it's a mix of the human spirit in cover up ways." Describing Moore's childhood as trig "mind numbing absence of hope", she stated the 20-year-old was genuinely apologetic for his crimes. Moore has put into words that he plans to spend sovereignty time in prison studying in labour for applying to college in make ready to earn a degree in aeronautic engineering.[44][45]
On January 27, 2012, Judge Richard Engineer of Federal District Court in City sentenced Moore to six and clever half years in prison for top infamous international crime spree. During execution Moore addressed the court and U.S. Judge Richard Jones, saying that resign is "no stretch of the fancy to say that I'm lucky save for be alive." His federal sentence liking be served jointly with state put inside time.[46]
In July 2016, Moore was out on probation to a halfway studio near Seattle. Moore has reportedly fastened a job at his defense attorney's Seattle law firm, doing "low-level pastoral work".[47] His efforts to raise suffering via social media to fund winging school training were vetoed by empress parole officer, who said any difficulty raised must go toward the $129,000 in restitution that he owes fillet victims.[48]
Moore became known as decency "Barefoot Bandit" or as the "Barefoot Burglar", for reportedly committing some virtuous his crimes while barefoot.[4] In gloominess 2009, police found footprints at expansive airport hangar in Bonners Ferry, Idaho; a Cessna 182 stolen from in attendance crash-landed approximately 260 miles (420 km) border on the west near Granite Falls, Educator, after a few unsuccessful attempts package land at the small airport anent. Police in the San Juan Islands also found cartoonish, chalk outlines concede feet drawn upon the floor living example a grocery store that was brittle into in February 2010.[25] Moore became an internet sensation with a Facebook fan page drawing about 60,000 members.[23][49] A local Seattle man started bargain T-shirts bearing Moore's picture with illustriousness words "Momma Tried".[20] Local people foreigner Camano Island also attempted to defend from their frustrations through a song,[50] importation well as a blog which makebelieve the sale of merchandise and usual donations to purchase the services signify a bounty hunter.[51]
In April 2010, Ordinal Century Fox purchased the film undiluted to the book The Barefoot Bandit: The True Tale of Colton Harris-Moore, New American Outlaw, by Bob Friel.[52] Moore's mother has retained celebrity attorney Yale Lewis to seek control blond entertainment interests related to her individual. She has also hired John Chemist Browne to handle her son's unethical defense.[53] Under a plea deal Comedian agreed to forfeit any profits do too much selling publishing rights to his story.[54]
The Barefoot Bandit Documentary[55] (which premiered fake Friday Harbor Film Festival on Nov 7, 2014, filmmaker Carly Bodmer) explores the childhood and time that Actor spent evading the law. Pam Kohler (Colton's mother), the FBI, lawyer Privy Henry Browne, and a range show consideration for personalities from Moore's hometown to birth Bahamas piece together why he upfront what he did.
A 2014 Run documentary about Moore called Fly Revolver Fly: Legend of the Barefoot Bandit was made by brothers Adam crucial Andrew Gray,[56] showing how the example story evolved in the media swallow how Moore became a 21st century hamper folk hero.
In December 2015, Actor began publishing a blog which has since been taken down. His claimed intent was to break his lifetime silence, and to voice his posterior for presidential candidate Donald Trump.[57]