'Barefoot Bandit' wants early release to become paid speaker
05/07/2019 10:52 am PDT
via KCPQ:
SEATTLE (KCPQ/AP) -- A man dubbed the “Barefoot Bandit” for a series of crimes committed as a teenager is trying to get out of probation early.
Colton Harris-Moore, now 28, asked a U.S. District Court judge in April to end his federal probation four months early so that he can become a motivational speaker.
Harris-Moore was sentenced in 2012 to seven years in prison for a series of crimes committed barefoot, which began after he escaped from a Renton juvenile halfway house in 2008.
He was ultimately captured after crash-landing a plane that he stole in Indiana and flew to the Bahamas.
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