"Barefoot Bandit" Colton Harris-Moore Doing Better in the Bahamas? May Have Crash-Landed Plane There

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (CBS/WISH/AP) Colton Harris-Moore, Washington State's notorious teen burglar dubbed "The Barefoot Bandit," is suspected of stealing a single-engine airplane from an Indiana airport and flying it over 1,000 miles to a water landing in the Bahamas.

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The small plane, a Cessna 400 Corvalis, was taken Saturday night or Sunday morning from a hangar at the Monroe County Airport.

According to CBS affiliate WISH, the coast guard located an emergency beacon from the plane in shallow water near a Bahamian island Sunday afternoon.

Police have kept tight lipped, but said the theft is similar to other heists attributed to Harris-Moore, according to the Herald-Times of Bloomington, Ind.

Harris-Moore, of Camano Island, Wash., has evaded authorities since April 2008, when he escaped from a halfway house south of Seattle. He is accused of breaking into dozens of homes since, and committing burglaries across Washington, as well as in British Columbia and Idaho.

He's believed to have stolen boats, cars, and several small airplanes that have been hot-wired and then crash-landed.

Last fall, bare footprints were found at an airport hangar in Bonners Ferry, Idaho, where a plane was stolen then crash-landed 260 miles to the west in Washington. In February, someone who broke into a grocery store in Washington's San Juan Islands drew cartoonish, chalk-outline feet all over the floor.

Much to the chagrin of law enforcement, a Harris-Moore fan club boasts more than 42,000 followers on Facebook.

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