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Barefoot Bandit appears before Judge Dube

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It was a really quick hearing -- according to Curt Anderson:

The American teenager who police call the "Barefoot Bandit" made his first appearance in a U.S. court since being extradited from the Bahamas.

Colton Harris-Moore appeared briefly in federal court in Miami on Wednesday. He is charged with committing a two-year string of break-ins and plane thefts across the United States. A judge set another hearing Friday to give Harris-Moore time to hire a lawyer.

The 19-year-old convict's alleged crime spree ended Sunday when Bahamian police shot out the engines of a stolen boat and arrested him. He pleaded guilty Tuesday to entering that country illegally and was deported hours later.

He had arrived in the Bahamas last week, crash landing a plane he allegedly stole in Indiana

Full post as published by Southern District of Florida on July 14, 2010 (boomark / email).

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