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Other Stuff That Has Little To Do With PLA => Phones in the News => Topic started by: Magus on October 08, 2009, 10:51:18 PM
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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.
Harris-Moore dropped out of high school and, according to Wallace, police believe he spent his teens burglarizing unoccupied homes on Camano Island, a vacation community of about 15,000 people off the Washington state coast. He became known as "the Barefoot Burglar," because, investigators say, he preferred to prowl shoeless.
Gradually, Wallace alleges, Harris-Moore moved onto more sophisticated crimes.
"He will typically break into a home or vehicle and copy down the credit card numbers," Wallace said. "He then leaves the credit cards behind so people don't realize they have been stolen."
Wallace said Harris-Moore has charged thousands of dollars worth of video games, GPS devices and police scanners online, using stolen credit cards.
When Harris-Moore wasn't squatting in homes, he took to the woods with survival gear to elude police. He's been known to hide in the trees. "He's almost like a feral child," Wallace said.
Harris-Moore's days of running from authorities on the 40-square-mile island appeared to end in 2007 when he was arrested and pleaded guilty to three counts of burglary. Wallace said some of the charges were dismissed as part of the guilty plea.
Less than a year later, Wallace said, Harris-Moore allegedly walked away from a juvenile halfway house.
Police on Camano Island again began receiving reports of thefts that fit Harris-Moore's profile, Wallace said. In 2008, a deputy said he spotted Harris-Moore in a stolen Mercedes-Benz, but he lost the suspect when he allegedly dove from the moving vehicle.
After the chase, police recovered a stolen digital camera from the car. Wallace said he found a deleted self-portrait of Harris-Moore, who posed in a shirt with a telltale Mercedes-Benz insignia. The shirt also belonged to the vehicle's owner.
Harris-Moore faces 10 counts in that case, as well as other thefts, Internet crimes and burglaries, Wallace said. Charges are expected soon in a dozen more cases.
Harris-Moore dropped from sight for a while when wanted posters of him went up around Camano Island. Soon, though, authorities in the San Juan Islands noticed a series of break-ins and wondered whether Harris-Moore was island-hopping.
The theft of a Cessna 182 from the San Juan Islands in November jogged Wallace's memory. He recalled what he had found on a computer he said Harris-Moore used. "He had looked at flight manuals and how to fly a plane," he said.
Another theft of a small experimental plane had been reported in September. John Zerby, undersheriff of San Juan County, said police don't think the two thefts are a coincidence. "This doesn't happen here, that's why we think they go together," he said.
Police consider Harris-Moore to be a fugitive. Even though Harris-Moore has no known flight training, Zerby said police are certain he is their mystery pilot.
Harris-Moore's mother doubts her son learned to fly on his own.
"Any time anything is stolen, they blame it on Colt," Pam Kohler told the Everett Herald newspaper. "Let's say you're the smartest person in the world. Wouldn't you need a little bit of training in flying a plane? They're not easy."
CNN attempted to contact Kohler, but her phone was disconnected. CNN also tried to reach a former attorney for Harris-Moore but the lawyer has not returned calls requesting comment.
Experts said that teaching oneself to fly is difficult but not impossible.
"It's been heard of," said flight instructor Devin Tolentino. "Let's face it, the Wright brothers were able to teach themselves. Landing would be the hardest part, but if you weren't too concerned about using the plane again, it could be done."
Meanwhile, authorities in Whatcom County are investigating whether Harris-Moore stole a boat and used it to reach Point Roberts, where burglaries at three vacation homes have recently been reported, Deputy Jeff Roberts said. Point Roberts, a small peninsula, is U.S. territory but is accessible only from the water or through Canada. From parts of Point Roberts, entering Canada is just a matter of crossing the street.
Last week, law enforcement agencies got a new lead when a private plane was stolen in Bonner's Ferry, Idaho, just across the border from Canada. Residents noticed a plane flying at an altitude of 100 feet as it left the area on Tuesday, said Detective Dave McClelland.
The plane was found Thursday, crashed and out of fuel in a patch of cleared forest in Granite Falls, Washington. On Sunday, authorities say they received a report of a burglary. "Blankets, shoes and food [were] taken instead of big-ticket items like TVs," said sheriff's spokeswoman Rebecca Hover.
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Wow, cool story. I'd compare him more to Frank Abagnale than Dex, though. Except this guy is actually going to do some serious jail time when he gets caught.
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Wow, cool story. I'd compare him more to Frank Abagnale than Dex, though. Except this guy is actually going to do some serious jail time when he gets caught.
That's the guy that jumped out of the airplane in Washington or Oregon, I don't remember which, with millions of dollars and was never found right?
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No, Frank Abagnale is the con man from the 60's who impersonated pilots, doctors, teachers, etc to cash millions in fake checks. All before he was 18.
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Oh yeah. The one Leonardo DiCaprio portrayed in that movie with Tom Hanks. I was thinking of D.B. Cooper.
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No, Frank Abagnale is the con man from the 60's who impersonated pilots, doctors, teachers, etc to cash millions in fake checks. All before he was 18.
And I have his autograph! w00t !!
(http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g43/knightdap/FrankAbagnaleSignature.png)
That's right, fellows. Be jealous. ;D
Also, here's Colt's fan page on FaceBook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Colton-Harris-Moore/154393645881?ref=nf
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Here's a hilariously bad song about Colton. I love this description of it from Seattle Weekly - "Simple rule about folk heroes: They don't qualify until someone writes a song about them. Fortunately for Colton Harris-Moore, someone has decided to pen The Ballard of Barefoot Harris, a tune that puts him in the ranks of Jesse James, the Green Berets and skinny dudes everywhere.
Unfortunately for Colton Harris-Moore, that someone isn't Slim Pickens, Bob Dylan or even Barry Sadler. Instead, our Barefoot Burglar gets Michael Mirrielees. A well-meaning dude with a guitar and a webcam but without a mastery of the high note."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66hgvV9KSek (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66hgvV9KSek)
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This guy is a fucking bad ass. I'm almost sad that I'll never be half the man that Colt is. Also, I've never heard of this "Dex". Who is this mysterious man?
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Also, I've never heard of this "Dex". Who is this mysterious man?
THIS (http://www.phonelosers.com/index.php?action=search) is Dex
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Also, I've never heard of this "Dex". Who is this mysterious man?
Dex is the creator of PrankNET. His crew makes lots of funny prank calls, but he puts people in danger and has caused tens of thousands of dollars in damages, so he's become the subject of controversy around here and elsewhere. Read this:
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2009/0803091pranknet1.html
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By any measure, "Dex" is a sociopath, a mean-spirited sadist who spews a barrage of racial epithets, vulgarities, and threats, and clearly enjoys the panic, fear, and damage he causes.
Seems like a pretty cool guy.
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This article (http://blogs.seattleweekly.com/dailyweekly/2009/10/things_you_find_out_while_read.php) claims that in Colton's 2007 arrest report, it says he bought the following with a stolen credit card: three containers of bear mace (presumably to avoid being Grizzly Man'd), a computer program called Evidence Eraser and membership with an online gay male pornography site called barelytwinks.com.
Also, it looks like today (from this article (http://blogs.seattleweekly.com/dailyweekly/2009/10/colton_harris-moores_friend_ha.php)) the police capture Colton's old partner in crime. His name is Harley Davidson Ironwing. No kidding, that's really the guy's name. And check out the guy's photo.
(http://blogs.seattleweekly.com/dailyweekly/harleydavidsonironwing.jpg)
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murd0c should totally hook up with this dude.
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murd0c should totally hook up with this dude.
murd0c only likes bears....
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if this dude likes twinks maybe he is a bear.
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No. This is a bear:
(http://www.usaunlimited.org/BEAR-CUB/Mail0003.JPG)
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for all i know that could be how this kid fucking looks now, after living months in the woods!
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Well, you got me there I guess.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ehw5YH9wEDY (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ehw5YH9wEDY)
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There a new article about Colton about once a day (I have a Google search on him running in my RSS reader), but this is a pretty good one with some new things in it.
Teen fugitive captures imagination of many (http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-fugitive-boy8-2009nov08,0,7087324.story)
Colton Harris-Moore, 18, escaped from a holding facility last year. Police say he's since stolen two boats, crashed three planes and burglarized homes and stores. Some call him a teen Jesse James.
Reporting from Camano Island, Wash. - Colton Harris-Moore has been a one-boy crime wave since he was 7 years old.
He has broken into houses, stolen cars and burglarized markets, hardware stores and cafes for years on this rural, woodsy island north of Seattle.
Since early 2008, when he escaped from a juvenile holding facility, Harris-Moore, now 18, has been leading police on a fruitless chase through Washington, Canada and Idaho -- stealing two boats and crash-landing three planes (he taught himself to fly on his computer, authorities suspect) along the way, police say.
Now it looks like he may be back.
Police are investigating a wave of burglaries over the last few weeks on Camano Island and nearby Whidbey Island. There are no official suspects, but many here are convinced that the youth whose Facebook fan club numbers more than 7,000, often described as a teenage Jesse James, is responsible.
On Camano Island, where residents say sheriff's deputies have been combing the woods on foot and sending search helicopters up at night, Harris-Moore more often is considered, simply, a thug.
"If someone says he's not intelligent, I would say that person is a fool," Josh Flickner said. It was Flickner's market that Harris-Moore, with police in hot pursuit, famously plowed into with a stolen Mercedes before running off while the car was still moving.
"But the people who have called him Robin Hood or James Bond on his Facebook fan club, it makes me want to vomit," Flickner said. "It just makes me sad that there's so many people in our society who would give glory to someone whose only intention is to thrive on the hurt of others."
Harris-Moore's baby face -- which belies his 6-foot-3, 205-pound frame -- is familiar to most people in Washington state. Mug shots, surveillance camera photos and Harris-Moore's self-portrait photo have been plastered for months in newspapers and on market bulletin boards and television news programs.
The fugitive's mother raised him in a run-down, single-wide trailer in the woods on the south end of the island. Posted along the driveway these days are multiple "No Trespassing" signs.
By the time Harris-Moore turned 12, he had a conviction for possession of stolen property. Over the next few years he racked up convictions for theft, burglary, malicious mischief and fourth-degree assault.
Neighbors said most often he stole not valuables but necessities: tools, blankets, food.
"He's broken in here a couple of times. He steals vitamin water, beef jerky, hot dogs. He doesn't like junk food," said Patty Arnett, a clerk at the Tyee Grocery on south Camano.
At one point he broke into the South Camano fire station and stole a thermal imaging camera, officials said, giving him night-vision capability in the woods.
Neighbors said Harris-Moore may have begun stealing as a child because his mother was unemployed and sometimes threw him out of the house.
"He had a horrible childhood," said Carol Star, Harris-Moore's next-door neighbor. "I could hear every kind of bad language out of her mouth, screaming and yelling at him. One time I yelled over there, 'I'm tired of hearing that! Knock it off!' And she screamed back, 'F--- you!' "
Robin Lowell, whose daughter was Harris-Moore's childhood friend, said theft became "a survival mechanism" for the boy.
"When you're told every day of your life that you are worthless and you are no good and get . . . out of my house, that's what you do. You get out," Lowell said. "And in order to eat, to have a place to sleep, you do what you need to do."
Harris-Moore became adept at setting up camps in the dense woods that cover the majority of Camano Island.
Island County sheriff's deputies, having found a load of pizza boxes at one of his camps, once caught him by posing as pizza deliverers. Another time, officers arrested him when they found a light on in an abandoned house.
But in April 2008,Harris-Moore escaped from a minimum-security juvenile home in Renton, Wash. Since then, he has been suspected in a rash of burglaries across northern Washington and into Canada.
His crimes may have reached a new level that November when authorities say a Cessna 182 belonging to a Seattle radio talk show personality was stolen from a hangar on Orcas Island and flown to a "hard landing" on the Yakama Indian Reservation.
Then on Sept. 11 this year, a Cirrus SR22 was stolen and flown to another of the San Juan Islands. The thefts accompanied a series of burglaries across Orcas Island.
San Juan County Sheriff Bill Cumming said Harris-Moore, who has long had an interest in aviation, is a suspect in both thefts; although he is not known to have any formal flight training, he did once buy a flight manual using a stolen credit card.
Officials believe he left the San Juan Islands in September on a stolen boat, which was found at Point Roberts, at the Canadian border.
From there, authorities theorize, Harris-Moore made his way across Canada to Bonners Ferry, Idaho, where another Cessna 182 was stolen Oct. 2 and landed in a logged-out forest area at Granite Falls, Wash.
"How he walked away from it is anybody's guess," said Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Mike Fergus. "The wings were broken, the fuselage had a big crack in it, the nose was broken." The plane had about 10 to 12 gallons of fuel remaining, he said.
Neighbors on Camano Island are convinced Harris-Moore flew over the island before landing at Granite Falls.
"It was about a month ago. There was a plane flying around the house up here. It was a gold and white Cessna," said Star, who has been the victim of numerous burglaries and thefts over the years.
"I started waving and jumping around. It was really, really low -- about 100 feet, just over the treetops. He was just boosting his ego, I'm sure."
Three days after the plane theft, a house not far from where the plane crashed was burglarized, a case that seemed to fit Harris-Moore's M.O.: Blankets, shoes and food were missing. Police combed the woods, and someone -- police said they believe it was "the suspect" -- fired a shot at deputies.
A full-scale manhunt ensued, with three dozen officers, SWAT teams and search dogs. The FBI has been called in.
But the fugitive remains at large, and his fame, perhaps predictably, has spread.
There are now at least three Colton Harris-Moore T-shirts to be had ("Mama Tried," reads one), a "Ballad of Barefoot Harris" can be found on YouTube ("He was born in the woods with a lockpick in his hand") and the Facebook fan page set up by three young men in Washington and Oregon has members from all over the world. "Fly, Colton, fly! Come in Greece and marry me!" one young woman invites.
Zack Sestak, a 26-year-old writer from the Seattle area who started the fan page, said he was intrigued after researching Harris-Moore's story for an article. And he was amazed to see the page grow at the rate of "10 new people every five minutes" once the fugitive's story began spreading.
"People that are struggling with this huge economic downturn, people feeling very disillusioned . . . CEOs getting million-dollar bonuses off of taxpayer dollars -- people are seeing this and they're feeling let down by the system," Sestak said.
"And to see an 18-year-old kid that seems to be taking on the system and winning -- I don't want to say people are inspired by that, but it strikes their imagination," he said.
Sometimes, it seems the only people here not talking about Harris-Moore are the authorities.
"We've had some burglaries on Camano Island, and we've had them on Whidbey Island, and we're investigating them, and that's what I can say," Island County Sheriff Mark Brown said. "I'm just not going to comment on the ongoing investigation, and I think you can appreciate why."
In the meantime, residents said, they've been told to lock their doors.
"I think most people are long past the fear stage," Flickner said. "Now you've got people who are either sympathetic or people who are sick of him and just want to see him caught. . . . I lock my doors at night. But it's not from fear. It's that I'll be damned if he breaks into my house."
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Everyone involved with Colton is hilarious. I should get the mom's phone number and interview her on The Phone Show.
Colton Harris-Moore’s mother says he’s not out in the cold
By Jackson Holtz
Herald Writer
CAMANO ISLAND — Colton Harris-Moore’s mother is growing weary of the all the attention placed on her son.
She said she’s tired of being bothered at her home, and of the exaggerations of her son’s behavior being spread by police, the Internet and the media.
“He doesn’t live outside. He lives in a home, has his own room,” said Pam Kohler, who lives on rural Camano Island.
She said he isn’t to blame for every crime on Camano Island and around the Pacific Northwest.
Harris-Moore, 18, is a fugitive who’s wanted in two states and Canada in connection with a string of burglaries and thefts.
Kohler said she speaks to him occasionally over an untraceable phone line and doesn’t know his location.
The Island County sheriff’s office simply isn’t up to task of bringing him in.
“They’re too damned lazy to do anything about,” she said. “He’s my son, and I will not put up with any more lies.”
Harris-Moore has gained international notoriety and has become an Internet folk hero. That has forced Kohler to change her phone number, in part, because of persistent calls from reporters eager to learn more about her son, she said.
“He thinks that Facebook is funny, with all his followers,” Kohler said.
As the December holidays approach, she said she misses having him around, although she’s getting used to his absence, she said.
The mother and son have a tumultuous past, according to court records.
Still, she said she plans to buy her son a gift, just in case she gets a chance to see him: a bullet-proof vest.
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From behind bars, pal tells Colton Harris-Moore to keep running
Harley Davidson Ironwing says he trained Colton Harris-Moore how to survive by stealing.
By Jackson Holtz
Herald Writer
CAMANO ISLAND — The boy burglars of Camano Island shared a dream.
They’d amass such a fortune they would toss money in the air and let the bills rain down.
Colton Harris-Moore met Harley Davidson Ironwing about five years ago.
Today, Harris-Moore, 18, is a fugitive wanted for crimes in Washington, Idaho and Canada. Police suspect he’s stolen planes, boats and luxury cars, and broken into dozens of homes and businesses.
Ironwing’s link to Harris-Moore resurfaced after the case made international headlines. He is the teenager’s only known accomplice, although they haven’t spoken in two years.
Ironwing, 20, is back behind bars. He is accused of shoplifting and escape while serving a prison sentence for theft.
He’s currently at the Washington Corrections Center in Shelton and is facing at least another five months in prison, officials said.
Ironwing agreed to talk about his friendship with Harris-Moore, and how he taught the younger boy how to prowl and quickly find valuable jewelry and electronics, items that could be converted to cash.
“He loves his money like I do,” Ironwing said while he was at the Snohomish County Jail last month. “He wants the same thing, just to have money, to sit on a pile of cash, to throw it up in the air and have it shower down.”
During his interview, Ironwing more than once asked to pass along this message to his friend: “Stay out until help can come to him.”
Pressed for what he meant, Ironwing would only say, “He’ll know.”
He urged Harris-Moore never to give himself up.
“He is good. What’s he’s doing is stupid right now,” Ironwing said. “He needs to quit taking pictures of himself.”
One iconic image from the case is a July 2008 photo Harris-Moore snapped of himself using a stolen digital camera. The camera was left behind in a Mercedes that was stolen from his mother’s neighbor. The photo shows Harris-Moore in the woods, headphones plugged into his ears, wearing a polo shirt featuring the Mercedes logo.
Ironwing believes such photos are Harris-Moore’s trademark, a calling card left at all his crime scenes.
“It’s not his calling card,” Island County sheriff’s detective Ed Wallace said. “He is leaving nothing like that behind.”
Wallace also is familiar with Ironwing, who was convicted of his first felony when he was 14. “I would say that any information he provides would be suspect,” Wallace said.
Since September when news broke that Harris-Moore allegedly has started stealing airplanes, the elusive teen gained attention from news networks and on the Web.
T-shirts were made, featuring Moore’s self-portrait. A Facebook fan page has attracted nearly 8,000 people.
Ironwing’s role in the case, and his unusual name, have contributed to the Internet buzz.
Ironwing said was he given his name by his adopted mother when he was 6. She added the middle name after the famous American motorcycle maker, and gave him her last name.
“She just thought it would be cool,” Ironwing said. “It gets annoying at times. It’s a unique name.”
Still, “I’d prefer not to be on the news,” he said.
Harris-Moore, on the other hand, likely thrives on the publicity, Ironwing said.
“Colton has ambition. He’s smart, and he loves what he’s doing,” he said.
Ironwing said he would never snitch on his friend or violate the thieves’ code.
He’s not cooperated with Snohomish County sheriff’s detectives or investigators with the state Department of Corrections.
“They think I’m full of (expletive) because I won’t tell them anything,” Ironwing said. “They got awfully angry at me.”
Snohomish County sheriff’s spokeswoman Rebecca Hover said detectives recently did try to talk with Ironwing.
“He had absolutely no useful information,” she said.
Ironwing’s solid frame barely fills his jail uniform. He’s 5-foot-2 but says he packs a mean punch.
Everyone in his hometown knows him as the “Stanwood Burglar,” he said.
“I’d break into anywhere I could get money,” he said.
His reputation is likely what drew Harris-Moore to him, Ironwing said.
“Back then I was a troublemaker,” Ironwing said. “He had to come to me. Everyone knows I’m a criminal.”
The two would burglarize so many homes each night, “You would be amazed,” Ironwing said.
When the burglars were at their peak in early 2007 a typical night of crime would begin with a phone call, Ironwing said.
The 6-foot-5-inch Harris-Moore would summon the older boy. Ironwing would hop a bus to Camano Island from Stanwood or Everett, wherever he was living at the time. They’d meet at a rural bus stop, then begin breaking into homes on the island.
In the morning, Ironwing said he’d hop another bus for home, his pockets filled with swag.
Island County sheriff’s deputies brought an end to the break-ins by handing out wanted posters featuring each boy’s mug. Harris-Moore was arrested and two days later Ironwing turned himself in.
Harris-Moore was sentenced to three years behind bars. He escaped from group home for juvenile offenders in Renton in April 2008.
Ironwing pleaded guilty in March 2007 to first-degree criminal trespassing and second-degree taking a motor vehicle without permission. He was ordered to serve nearly a year in juvenile detention.
Not long after his release, Ironwing was arrested for breaking into a Stanwood church safe during a Sunday prayer service. He was sentenced to nearly three years in prison.
At the end of September, Ironwing was transferred to a work release program in Seattle, officials said. On Oct. 20, Ironwing left for a job interview. He didn’t come back.
Less than a week later Ironwing was caught shoplifting at the Everett Mall.
“Maybe Colt can teach him how to escape and not get caught,” said Pam Kohler, Harris-Moore’s mother. “A favor for a favor.”
Ironwing said he’s looking to change his ways.
“I basically just blew away my whole childhood,” he said. “I’m 20-years-old now. I got to grow up.”
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Wow. This kid is fucked when he gets caught; however, if he honestly shot at police officers, he's more likely to be killed.
Or, with his huge following, I can't wait for some idiot fan who sees him somewhere and posts and "OMG I SAW HIM AWESOME" to accidentally give his location away. Or for the police to trap him with a fake offer of safe haven, etc, etc.
[EDIT] I'm really curious, though, about the whole "untraceable" calls thing. Is his mother saying this because her son claims the call is untracable, or have the police actually been monitoring her communications? I'm doubting that he knows how to op-divert, which really only leaves prepaid cell phones and VOIP (unless I'm missing something). And if he is using a Skype account or something similar, you have to wonder if law enforcement is getting pissed about the lack of regulation and accountability behind VOIP services.
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Wow. This kid is fucked when he gets caught; however, if he honestly shot at police officers, he's more likely to be killed.
Nah, his mom says she's getting him a bullet-proof vest for Christmas. He'll be fine!
[EDIT] I'm really curious, though, about the whole "untraceable" calls thing. Is his mother saying this because her son claims the call is untracable, or have the police actually been monitoring her communications? I'm doubting that he knows how to op-divert, which really only leaves prepaid cell phones and VOIP (unless I'm missing something). And if he is using a Skype account or something similar, you have to wonder if law enforcement is getting pissed about the lack of regulation and accountability behind VOIP services.
I wouldn't put much faith in anything the mother says. She's fucking nuts. He's probably just calling from a pay phone. Then again, he is into credit card fraud and teaching himself to fly planes, so maybe he does know how to cover his tracks.
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i don't find it too hard to believe that someone who taught himself how to fly migth have figured out how to op-divert.
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i don't find it too hard to believe that someone who taught himself how to fly migth have figured out how to op-divert.
He crashes all his flights though.
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i don't find it too hard to believe that someone who taught himself how to fly migth have figured out how to op-divert.
I've been op-diverting for years and I still don't know how to fly a plane. I must be doing it wrong.
Nah, his mom says she's getting him a bullet-proof vest for Christmas. He'll be fine!
Those are expensive, though. He should just steal his own.
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Also, I've never heard of this "Dex". Who is this mysterious man?
Dex is the creator of PrankNET. His crew makes lots of funny prank calls, but he puts people in danger and has caused tens of thousands of dollars in damages, so he's become the subject of controversy around here and elsewhere. Read this:
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2009/0803091pranknet1.html
this is the best... i just finished listening to the KFC prank where he was getting the chicks to get naked and piss all over each other in the streets...
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dex is a socially inept, one-trick-pony retard.
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1250484/Barefoot-Bandit-thought-struck-stolen-plane-near-robbed-store.html (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1250484/Barefoot-Bandit-thought-struck-stolen-plane-near-robbed-store.html)
Colton stole another plane, violated Olympics airspace, robbed a grocery store, drew barefoot footprints all over the floors in chalk, and left a piece of the store's security equipment sitting in the sink all night with the water running over it. It's pretty obvious he's now just doing crazy things to make the papers. The article has some funny pictures in it, so go read it.
(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/02/12/article-1250484-084048B3000005DC-431_468x426.jpg)
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This is great...Colton is trying to be Robin Hood now.
Harris-Moore note left at Raymond animal clinic (http://heraldnet.com/article/20100617/NEWS01/100619886)
RAYMOND, Wash. -- A handwritten note signed by Colton Harris-Moore was left at a veterinary clinic in southwest Washington at the end of May and police have confirmed its authenticity.
The note left at a Raymond, Wash., clinic reads: “Drove by, had some extra cash. Please use this cash for the care of animals --Colton Harris-Moore, (AKA: "The Barefoot Bandit") Camano Island, WA.”
Police confirmed to the CBS news program 48 Hours that fingerprints taken from the note match Harris-Moore, 19, of Camano Island.
The news broke today on the website of KIRO-TV, The Herald's news partner.
Harris-Moore reportedly has a love of animals. He’s been a fugitive since April 2008 and is suspected of stealing planes, boats, cars and breaking into dozens of homes and businesses.
Police in Warrenton, Ore., just across the Columbia River, said Harris-Moore could be a suspect in a string of crimes there on June 1. They are investigating a boat theft, an attempted airplane theft and a car theft -- all crimes similar to those linked to the teenager.
The car stolen from Warrenton was ditched in a rural area about an hour south of Portland.
Harris-Moore has been called the “Barefoot Bandit” by some media outlets after reports that he sometimes flees crime scenes shoeless. Officials said he most often wears shoes.
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Colton has been heading east for the past week, stealing cars from Washington to Indiana. This weekend he stole an airplane from Indiana and flew it to the Bahamas, crash landing it as usual. His 4th of July was so much more exciting than ours!
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- A plane stolen from a small airport in Indiana crashed off the coast of the Bahamas and police suspect Colton Harris-Moore may have been the pilot.
The Bloomington Herald-Times reported Monday that local police suspected Harris-Moore, 19, was in the area after a car stolen in Illinois was recovered nearby on June 30.
Monroe County Airport manager Bruce Payton told the local paper that Harris-Moore was suspected of stealing a small plane sometime over the weekend. The plane was recovered crash-landed off the coast of the Bahamas, U.S. Coast Guard officials told the Herald-Times.
It was unclear if there were any survivors.
Harris-Moore is suspected in a string of crimes across the country beginning in Washington, then extending to Oregon, Idaho, Wyoming, South Dakota, Nebraska, Iowa and Illinois. Police along the way have confirmed they evidence pinning the 19-year-old Camano Island fugitive to burglaries at small airports and car thefts.
Since escaping from a Seattle-area group home in April 2008, he's suspected in at least five small airplane thefts despite no formal flight training.
His mother, Pam Kohler, recently told The Herald that she hoped her son would steal a plane and flee the country.
The flight from central Indiana to the Bahamas is about 1,200 miles.
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the dream is over.
they caught him.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/cb_bahamas_teen_fugitive
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That sucks. I was hoping he'd go on for at least another year. Maybe he'll make a daring prison escape.
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yea, as soon as i heard he was caught i was thinking that... he escaped once... hopefully he can escape again...
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escaping from a halfway house is, uh, probably a little easier.
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Let's all organize a daring escape for him. We can meet up and drive down to bust him out. It'll be just like a phone mob, only with cars and guns and jail breaks.
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SHOTGUN!
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escaping from a halfway house is, uh, probably a little easier.
yea i know... and the fact that he has escaped and evaded in the past, they will probably make it more difficult to lose track of him again this time..
but you can always dream right?
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48 Hours did a show about Colton today. I just finished watching it and it's good stuff:
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7052589n&tag=related;photovideo (http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7052589n&tag=related;photovideo)
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Hope they go easy on him at sentencing. I kind of feel bad for him after watching that.
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I read a few times that they expect him to do around 7 years total.
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I find the whole thing amazing in truth. Here you have what many would call a dead beat useless brat with no future. School he didn't care for, parent(s) who were about as useful as a broken condom, and a community who just didn't give two shits about him or his situation in life. So he does what anyone else would do and chased his dreams in a disturbed fashion and had fun with life.
It's not like the man is dumb in any fashion. He was able to elude police time, and time, and time again. Even FBI on a whim. Not many can proclaim to do that when they're literally breathing down your neck. But he did. He literally up and vanished with him in their sights.
But I, too, hope they go soft on him at sentencing. But on the same note he embarrassed police, FBI, and various other law officials with nothing more than a tip of a the hat and a quick step. Hopefully they can't pin him too harshly as he's obviously a mind worth examining; especially if he were able to steal planes and fly them without any formal training to speak of. Regardless he embarrassed our silly home land security if he were able to crawl into Canada and back without anyone batting a lash. Not to mention borrow several small airplanes without anyone realizing what was going on.
If anything I can't wait to read the books that are bound to follow from this. Such as when they come out, and they will, there will be some rather obtuse views portrayed of him.
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Maybe he'll get lucky like Frank Abagnale and they'll let him out on a work release program and he'll make millions at it.
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I saw this on TV the other day. What a great story.