Fly, Colt, Fly: Police Suspect ‘Barefoot Burglar’ is Stealing, Crashing Planes
October 9th, 2009The kid should have become a CEO of a large, crooked corporation. Then he would have been rewarded with taxpayer funded bonuses for his sociopathic behavior…
Hmm. Why aren’t hundreds of cops and helicopters, etc. trying to apprehend those CEOs for doing pretty much the same thing as Colton “Colt” Harris-Moore, but on a planetary scale?
In any event, the product placement on this one is incredible.
“Harris-Moore…posed in a shirt with a telltale Mercedes-Benz insignia.”
Via: CNN:
Who is stealing — and crashing — airplanes in Washington state?
The 18-year-old man police call the prime suspect does not have a pilot’s license. But he does have a nickname — “The Barefoot Burglar” — and a Facebook fan club, which compares him to Jesse James “without the murders” and exhorts: “Fly, Colt, Fly.”
Police say Colton “Colt” Harris-Moore has been linked to crimes in five counties involving planes, luxury cars and boats. He’s known to alternate between squatting in vacant vacation homes, which he allegedly burglarizes, and roughing it in the woods.
Since November, police say, at least three small, private planes have been stolen and flown away. The latest to go missing crash-landed last week in a clearing in Granite Falls, Washington, after running out of fuel, police said.
The rough landing damaged the Cessna 182, which along with its instruments is worth more than $500,000. But authorities said the plane’s pilot appears to have walked away unhurt.
Harris-Moore has not been charged in any of the plane thefts. But authorities are testing vomit found in the cockpit of one plane to see whether they can place the teen inside.
Harris-Moore has been on authorities’ radar for years. “Colt,” as he is called, was first arrested for burglary at age 12, said Detective Ed Wallace, a spokesman for the Island County Sheriff’s Office. The break-in at a local school earned Colton a few weeks in a juvenile facility, Wallace said.
Local media reports tally nine arrests for Harris-Moore before the age of 15. Now police in five counties in Washington state are looking for him.
