Prints link Barefoot Bandit to South Dakota
YANKTON, S.D. (AP) — Fingerprints found at the scene of a Yankton burglary match those of the "Barefoot Bandit," South Dakota authorities confirm.
Yankton assistant police chief Jerry Hisek says he was notified today that state Division of Criminal Investigation found three of 19-year-old Colton Harris-Moore's fingerprints at the scene of a June 18 break-in.
The teen (pictured) had already been named a suspect. Harris-Moore, of Camano Island, Wash., has evaded authorities since April 2008, when he escaped from a halfway house south of Seattle.
He is accused of breaking into dozens of homes since and committing burglaries across the region and into the Midwest, including the theft of a small airplane from the Boundary County Airport.
Police in Nebraska issued a warrant for Harris-Moore's arrest this week.
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