Most teenage thieves content themselves with a spot of shoplifting. Colton Harris-Moore, a 19-year-old on the run from US authorities for two years, has bigger ambitions: he is being hunted in the Bahamas after stealing a plane and making a 1,000-mile flight from the mainland.
Harris-Moore, known as the Barefoot Bandit for the trademark shoeless prints left at a series of crime scenes, is believed to have ditched the single-engine Cessna – one of a series of planes he has stolen and apparently taught himself to fly – in shallow water on the tip of Great Abaco island, the largest in the Bahamas archipelago.
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