Catch Me, If You Can - The "Barefoot Bandit" Story is Coming Soon!

Badass Digest is reporting that Fox has reached a deal with 20-year-old criminal Colton Harris-Moore (known in the media as the "Barefoot Bandit") to tell his story in both print and film. The $1.3M he makes from this deal will be used to repay the victims of his crimes (he owes roughly $1.4M in restistution fees). Per the terms of his plea bargain, Harris-Moore is forbidden from making a profit off his story.

For those not familiar with the story, it's almost another "Catch Me, If You Can" scenario. Colton Harris-Moore had been in trouble with law since the age of 12. Neglected by his alcoholic mother and abused by his drug addict father, he turned to petty thefts to get attention. When he was 17, he walked away from a halfway house where he was to complete a 3-year sentence for stealing a neighbor's camcorder. From there, he lived in the wilderness of Washington state and Canada. He would break into local vacation homes to eat, use hot tubs, steal credit cards (it is reported that he once stole a credit card to buy bear mace and night vision goggles), bicycles, cars, boats, and small aircraft - among other things.

He taught himself how to fly from reading flight manuals and watching instructional DVDs. He earned his nickname because in some his break-ins, he would leave a chalk outline of his bare feet.

As a fugitive, he evaded authorities for 2 years. On July 1, 2010 he stole a Cessna-400 single-engine jet from an airport in Bloomington, IL and flew down to the Bahamas where the plane crashed along the shore of Great Abaco Island. Shortly after, there were break-ins reported in the area. The Royal Bahamas Police Force began their search and he was apprehended on July 11, 2010 on Harbour Island, Bahamas after tracking a boat that he had stolen while on Great Abaco Island.

In a written statement released by his attorney's Colton Harris-Moore had this to say: "I did things that were not only a violation of law, but also of trust. I can’t undo what I did. I can only try to make things better."