'Barefoot Bandit' sentenced to seven years over crime spree

Colton Harris-Moore has gained international fame while escaping the police throughout the United States in the flight of aircraft, ships and cars

The 20-year-old "Barefoot Bandit" was sentenced to more than seven years in prison after pleading guilty to dozens of charges.

Colton Harris-Moore has gained international fame while escaping the police across the United States in the flight of aircraft, boats and cars for a crime wave two years.

Judge Vickie Churchill

said that "this case is a tragedy in many ways, but it is a triumph of human spirit in a different way." She described the lifting of Harris-Moore as a "mind-numbing lack of hope," and believed he was truly repentant and contrite.

action Friday against the cases consolidated Harris-Moore in three counties in Washington. He has already pleaded guilty to federal charges in Seattle and will be sentenced for the crimes early next year. Meet state and federal sentences at the same time.

In a statement at Churchill, said his childhood was the one who does not want his "dark enemy."

however, said he takes responsibility for the crime wave.

Harris-Moore said he has studied the online manuals and videos to teach himself to become a pilot, and the emotions he experienced during the flight of the aircraft flew repeated his passion for life and help to rehabilitate the prison.

"The euphoria of the countdown for takeoff and the realization of a dream almost blinding," he said of his first flight illegal, the. November 11, 2008 "My first thought after take-off was," Oh, my God, I fly. "I waited my whole life for this moment. "

He said he will use his time in prison to study and prepare for applying to college, hoping to get a degree in aeronautical engineering.

He pleaded guilty to charges including identity theft, theft of a weapon and burglary.

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• Harris-Moore of the law that earned him an international reputation and a great movie to help pay his victims after stealing a plane stolen from Indiana in the Bahamas in July 2010, s' has crashed near the mangroves and was arrested by the authorities in the Bahamas in a hail of bullets.

state prosecutors asked for nine and a half years in prison. Attorney Harris-Moore, Emma Scanlan, sought a lower end of six years, citing his sad childhood in a trailer Camano Island with an alcoholic mother and a series of condemning their boyfriends. Presented details of his education in the psychiatric reports and mitigation of the court.

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