COUPEVILLE, Wash., Dec. 17 (UPI) -- A Washington State man dubbed the "Barefoot Bandit" has been sentenced to more than seven years in prison for 33 burglaries and thefts, including an airplane.
Colton Harris-Moore, 20, was sentenced Friday in Coupeville, Wash., for his two-year crime spree in three counties, The Seattle Times reported.
In a six-page letter to the judge his lawyer wasn't aware of, Harris-Moore apologized and said his behavior was based on growing up in a dysfunctional home with an abusive and alcoholic mother, the newspaper said.
"I take full responsibility for my actions; these explanations are only to provide you with context, not excuses," he wrote.
Judge Vickie Churchill said she took his letter into consideration in imposing the sentence.
Harris-Moore committed many of his crimes while barefoot and became an underground cult hero with some 50,000 Facebook fans, eluding police until his July 2010 arrest in the Bahamas, CNN said.
Among his most notorious thefts was a small airplane he took up in bad weather Nov. 11, 2008, despite having no formal pilot training. He managed to land safely.
The state charges include residential burglaries, thefts of identity and a car and eluding police, CNN said.
Harris-Moore pleaded guilty earlier this year to federal charges of stealing an airplane, piloting an airplane without a license, burglarizing a bank and possessing a firearm as a fugitive. He will be sentenced on those charges in January, the Times said.
