"Barefoot Bandit" Gets 6.5 Years Of Federal Time

"Barefoot Bandit" Gets 6.5 Years Of Federal Time: Serial robber named "Barefoot Bandit" was sentenced Friday in Seattle to 6-1/2 years in prison for his guilty plea on federal charges stemming from a feeling, a vague crime two years teenage runaway, sometimes barefoot. A federal judge also ruled that Colton Harris-Moore, 20, is serving his sentence run concurrently with the federal state of more than seven years in the making, his lawyers say they saw him released before his 26th birthday.

The procedure marked the end of the extraordinary saga of two years, Harris-Moore, a high school dropout and self-taught pilot who escaped from a juvenile detention facility and remained one step ahead of the law he broke into the house and stole cars, boats and aircraft in nine states and British Columbia . His exploits, which prosecutors said included at least 67 crimes, ended when he was captured in the Bahamas in July 2010, after landing, the aircraft flew, flew to the island of Indiana.

The term of 78 months in federal prison, he got on Friday was the maximum he faced during the seven federal charges, he pleaded guilty in June, including interstate transportation of stolen and two boats, bank robbery, possessing a firearm as a fugitive, and to fly planes without a valid license. In the last month before a national court in Coupeville, Washington, DC, Harris-Moore, who grew up in a community of Puget Sound Camano Island, was sentenced to 87 months to 33 crimes ranging from hacking attempts to evade the police.

His lawyers said that Harris-Moore credit should be given to the behavior of time served and good, their client, who turns 21 in March, is likely to spend 4-1/2 years in prison and could be released before the 26th anniversary. In a statement read to 5 minutes before District Judge Richard Jones, to pronounce sentence, Harris Moore apologized for his crimes, "Lessons Learned on the back of my sacrifice is not a reason for my crimes." At the judge's question, what message he would like to convey to young people, Harris-Moore said: "What I have been called bold, but I was lucky to be alive."

MOVIE DEAL

As part of his plea agreement, Harris-Moore agreed to waive any rights to use his life story. He signed for the film 20th Century Fox, putting aside about $ 1.3 million in revenue in compensation for their victims. During his state conviction in December 16, Island County Superior Court Judge Vickie Churchill called the case of Harris-Moore is a tragedy, but also "a triumph of human reason," because of his childhood seriously worried.

Defense documents filed Thursday said that the Harris-Moore was a "low risk of recurrence and the will and interest to make a life for himself as a member of the community." A small plane commuter contacted Harris-Moore "about his future after incarceration," the documents. They also quoted an e-mail expressing his desire to become a pilot.

Protocol sentences 39 pages filed charges, however, questioned whether Harris-Moore was truly remorseful. Prosecutors called the e-mails and phone calls from Harris-Moore during his detention in which he referred to the federal police as "pigs" and "asses" the media as "vermin" and the Washington County Attorney, as a "fool."

Defence replied that "quotes and e-mail analysis, quite frankly, no more than an attempt to use cognitive inflammatory thoughts in adolescents against him."

In his sentencing hearing, the State Harris-Moore describes his childhood growing up with alcoholic mother as "I want my dark enemies." His mother, Pam Kohler, slipped into the procedure on Friday, shortly after the start and was sitting in the back row of the crowded hall listened attentively, taking his sunglasses on his neck and strained to catch a glimpse of his son.

She waved to him during a break, and Harris-Moore, who said through his lawyers, in the past that she prefers not to attend his performances of the court, he was recognized with a nod and a smile. Then she called her name aloud, "Colt." Assistant Prosecutor William C. Darwin Roberts said the behavior of Harris-Moore was not hamper his education is in trouble.

"After a difficult childhood and the dreams of flying aircraft is not grounds for a break in a bank," he said.

One of the victims of burglary, Kelly Kneifl of Yankton, South Dakota, testified about how his family was horrified when they returned from a trip in the middle of the night to find that Harris-Moore, naked, was broke into their house .

"Next year, in the literal sense ... Dad would enter the house first," and children were afraid to sleep in his room.