Marsh Harbour, Bahamas:
The wily resourcefulness of a fugitive teenage thief has been on display again as he eludes an intensifying manhunt on a sparsely populated island in the Bahamas.
Soldiers and police armed with shotguns fanned out with German shepherds as the search for Colton Harris-Moore entered its fifth day on Thursday on Great Abaco Island, where police believe he has been hiding out since ditching a stolen plane offshore.
As the 19-year-old fugitive, dubbed the "Barefoot Bandit", evades the island-wide dragnet, some of Abaco's 16,000 residents have expressed the same admiration that Harris-Moore won in corners of the United States during his two-year run from the law. Since escaping from a halfway house, he has become a folk hero of sorts, with escapes allegedly involving stolen cars, boats and airplanes.
Soldiers and police armed with shotguns fanned out with German shepherds as the search for Colton Harris-Moore entered its fifth day on Thursday on Great Abaco Island, where police believe he has been hiding out since ditching a stolen plane offshore.
As the 19-year-old fugitive, dubbed the "Barefoot Bandit", evades the island-wide dragnet, some of Abaco's 16,000 residents have expressed the same admiration that Harris-Moore won in corners of the United States during his two-year run from the law. Since escaping from a halfway house, he has become a folk hero of sorts, with escapes allegedly involving stolen cars, boats and airplanes.
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