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November 12, 2010 - Colton Harris-Moore, 19, of Camano Island, Washington,
was indicted by a federal grand jury in the Western
District of Washington in connection with his lengthy
crime spree in the Pacific
Northwest.
Harris-Moore is charged with interstate transportation
of a stolen aircraft, interstate and foreign
transportation of a stolen firearm, being a fugitive in
possession of a firearm, piloting an aircraft without a
valid airman’s certificate, and interstate
transportation of a stolen vessel.
Harris-Moore remains in custody at the Federal Detention
Center at SeaTac, Washington.
He is scheduled to be arraigned on the indictment on
November 18, 2010. “The grand jury action is an
important step in holding Colton Harris-Moore
accountable for his criminal conduct,” said U.S.
Attorney Jenny A. Durkan.
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The
indictment follows the criminal complaint which was the basis
for Harris-Moore’s arrest in the Bahamas in July 2010.
Colton Harris-Moore dubbed the 'Barefoot Bandit' was arrested in
the pre dawn hours of Sunday, July 25th when police picked up
his trail on the island of Eleuthera in the Bahamas after they
spotted the 44 foot long power boat in which the bandit had
stolen from a marina in Marsh Harbor, Great Abaco Island.
Colton
Harris-Moore, dubbed the “Barefoot Burglar” for the reason that
he once kicked off his shoes to flee police chasing him in the
woods of his home town Camano Island, Washington
has been on a two year spree of breaking into homes, stealing,
cars, boats and aircraft since his escape from a group detention
center in 2008.
The 19
year old Colton Harris-Moore had been wanted for crimes
committed across the U.S., Canada
and now the
Bahamas. Over the July 4th
weekend, Colton Harris-Moore Moore stole a single engine Cessna
Corvalis 400, from Monroe County Airport Bloomington, Indiana
and crash landed in shallow waters off
Great Abaco
Island in the Bahamas.
The
first charged criminal act in the indictment is the September
29, 2009 theft and transportation of a stolen Cessna aircraft
from Bonners Ferry, Idaho, to
near Granite Falls,
Washington.
The
interstate and foreign transportation of a stolen firearm count
pertains to a .32 caliber pistol. Harris-Moore stole the pistol
in Canada and
carried it with him into Idaho
and on the stolen plane he flew to the
Granite
Falls area. Harris-Moore
is also charged with possessing another firearm while he was a
fugitive between October 1, 2009 and May 6, 2010.
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