Stolen plane, grocery store break-in suggest Washington’s teenage ‘barefoot bandit’ back at it
By Gene Johnson, APThursday, February 11, 2010
Stolen plane suggests Wash.’s teen burglar is back
SEATTLE — A stolen airplane found in the San Juan Islands and a burgled grocery store suggest that Washington state’s infamous teenage ‘barefoot bandit’ is back at it.
Sherri Pierson, a bookkeeper at Homegrown Market on Orcas Island, tells The Associated Press that someone broke into the store Wednesday night.
San Juan County sheriff’s officials are also investigating a plane from Skagit County that was found at the airport on Orcas — a suspected modus-operandi of Colton Harris-Moore, who’s wanted in scores of break-ins since he escaped from a halfway house in April 2008.
Pierson says the store’s owner arrived Thursday to find that cash had been taken from the market, a dessert tray of stuffed croissants had been cleared out and a security system monitor had been left under running water in a sink.
