SEATTLE - A stolen airplane found in the San Juan Islands and chalk-outline feet drawn all over a burgled grocery store suggest that Washington's infamous teenage 'barefoot bandit' is back at it.
San Juan County sheriff's officials are investigating a plane from Skagit County that was found at the airport on Orcas -- a suspected modus-operandi of 18-year-old Colton Harris-Moore, who's wanted in scores of break-ins since he escaped from a halfway house in April 2008.
The single-engine plane is registered to Anacortes-based Alyeska Ocean, a Management Services company. Alyeska president Jeff Hendricks says the plane was stolen sometime on Wednesday and landed on Orcas Island Wednesday night. It had run off the taxiway and into a meridian. Hendricks says the Skagit County Sheriff's Office will inspect the plane Friday for clues.
Hendricks says he was also contacted by the Department of Homeland Security because of the plane's proximity to an area that's under restriction temporarily due to the Olympics in Vancouver.
Sherri Pierson, a bookkeeper at Homegrown Market on Orcas Island, tells The Associated Press that someone broke into her store Wednesday night, and its owner arrived Thursday to find 3-foot-long chalk outline feet drawn all over the floor.
Pierson said some cash was taken from the market, a dessert tray of stuffed croissants was cleared out, and a security system monitor was left under running water in a sink.
The Orcas Island Chamber of Commerce is warning its members that Harris-Moore may be back.
